Results
28,816 results found for all records.
Gruffyd Evans on Lib-Lab pact (1978)
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- Interview
Liberal, Gruffyd Evans talks to Vivian White about the effect on party identity of the Liberal-Labour pact.
Christopher Soames on receiving peerage (1978)
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- Interview
Sir Christopher Soames says he is pleased to re-join home politics as he is elevated to the peerage. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White).
Pat Colman on unemployment (1978)
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- Interview
Chairman of the Young Liberals, Pat Colman criticises the Labour Government’s policies on youth unemployment. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White).
Minimising oil spill damage (1978)
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- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on minimising the damage done by an oil spill (possibly from the tanker, Amoco Cadiz, which ran aground off Brittany on 16/03/78). Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White).
Amoco Cadiz oil spill (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the operation to minimise the damage done by an oil spill from the tanker, Amoco Cadiz (16/03/78). Female interviewer not identified.
David Penhaligon on Concorde’s sonic boom (1978)
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- Interview
David Penhaligon, MP for Truro, on the Concorde sonic boom, about which some 40 of his constituents have complained. He says an ideal situation would be for the planes to fly supersonically only once they...
Roland Moyle on central register to monitor child abuse (1978)
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- Interview
Roland Moyle, Minister for Health, on the prospect of a centralised register of child abusers. Male interviewer not identified.
Jack Dromey on union decision to fine illicit postmen (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Jack Dromey of the Transport and General Workers Union, on the decision by the Union of Post Office Workers’ disciplinary panel to fine seven postmen a total of £1400 for the illegal blacking of...
Swedish bionic hand for disabled child (1978)
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- Interview
The unidentified mother of a disabled child describes how she contacted Charles Langley of the Evening News after seeing a BBC Tomorrow’s World programme on Swedish-designed bionic hands. Langley...
Public inquiry into GLC practice deemed intrusive (1978)
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- Interview
Union spokesman Fred Hallock(?) on allegations by a Mr Bailey (poss. Ronald Bailey of the Shelter Housing Emergency Committee) into Greater London Council practices regarding house demolition which have...