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Increase in London’s rat population (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Julie Benson reports on a 30 percent increase in London’s rat population since the beginning of 1989. Weil’s disease, spread by rat urine in water, is on the increase too especially in the Thames....
Young on pub sell-off plans (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Trade Secretary, Lord Young (David Young), about proposed Government measures to curtail the monopoly of Britain’s top six brewing giants with the promise of cheaper beer in pubs. Lord Young...
Paul McCartney on environmental issues (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Music
James Matthews reports from a studio in London where Paul McCartney is rehearsing with his new band for a world tour. The former Beatle is using the occasion to promote environmental organisation Friends of...
Miles Copeland, Jr. on life and times (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Gill Pyrah interviews Miles Copeland, Jr. (Miles Axe Copeland, father of Miles Copeland III), musician, businessman, and CIA officer about his time as a musician playing with jazz trumpeter Erskine Hawkins,...
Steve Jones show (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Steve Jones interviews guest jazz singer Marion Montgomery, coinciding with her appearance at the Barbican in London with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. She speaks about why she doesn’t tend to make...
Anti-crack offensive in UK (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Clive Myrie reports on UK Government attempts to prevent the spread of the drug crack cocaine. Includes interview with expert, Professor Griffith Edwards, Addiction Research Unit in London, about the...
Anti-crack offensive in UK (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Home Affairs Committee chairman, John Wheeler, on UK Government attempts to prevent the spread of the use of the highly addictive drug crack cocaine which is already a large problem in the...
Bleriot flight re-enacted (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Catherine Bayfield reports on the failure of Louis Bleriot III, a middle-aged French businessman, to re-enact his grandfather’s first flight across the Channel in 1909 as he is too heavy. A vintage Bleriot...
Bleriot flight re-enactment fails (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Catherine Bayfield reports on an attempt to re-enact the first flight across the Channel by Louis Bleriot in 1909. The vintage Bleriot Type XI monoplane ditched into the sea just short of the crossing, it...
Felix Bloch spy scandal (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Paul Woodley reports on the Felix Bloch spy scandal in the USA. A lack of any conclusive evidence prevented any prosecution. The dilemma facing authorities is explained by former CIA director, Stansfield...