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Hugh Faulkner on Help the Aged cash crisis (1978)
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- Interview
Hugh Faulkner, Director of Help the Aged, describes the charity’s cash crisis and admits the programme is short, leaving many projects unfinished. The cash shortage has meant people going hungry and not...
Richard Booth, King of Hay-on-Wye (1978)
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- Interview
Richard Booth, Monarch Elect of Hay-on-Wye, discusses his village’s plans for the future, his castle, how he would rule, and the titles that he is selling off to the villagers. Since Hay is ruled by the...
Nationwide confirm house price rises (1978)
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- Interview
General Manager of Nationwide, Leonard Williams explains the rumours of rising house prices and the returning of gazumping. He concedes that rates will rise during the coming year, possibly by 12%.
Racial abuse trial feedback (1978)
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- Interview
Sydney Bidwell MP discusses the recent acquittal of John Kingsley Read, charged with racial abuse. Bidwell says the acquittal was unreasonable, and that Judge Neil McKinnon, who presided over the case, was...
Black barristers to boycott cases (1978)
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- Interview
Following Judge McKinnon’s acquittal of John Kingsley Read on racial abuse charges, Rudy Narayan, leader of the black barristers, explains the decision to boycott cases judged by McKinnon.
John Merrill aims to walk coastline of Great Britain (1978)
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- Interview
John Merrill, from Derbyshire, England, is a marathon walker, a profession which he can be said to have created. Here he is interviewed on his aim to walk around the entire coastline of Great Britain. He...
Meteor shower to hit Earth (1978)
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- Interview
Astronomer Dr John Gribbin discusses the likelihood of a meteor shower on Earth, which has occurred before, and is a natural phemomenon. This is nothing to be worried about, he says, and is comparable to a...
Football transfer smashes pay policy (1978)
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- Interview
Dennis Skinner, Labour politician and member of the National Executive Committee is disgusted with the smashing of the 10% pay policy rule with the transfer of footballer Joe Jordan from Leeds United to...
Andrei Klymchuk to be released (1978)
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- Interview
The KGB have kidnapped Briton Andrei Klymchuk, accused of helping Ukrainian organisations in the USSR. Here his father Michael Klymchuk reacts to the news that his son is to be released. He believes his son...
Peter Hain on Donald Woods flight from South Africa (1978)
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- News report; Interview
Donald James Woods CBE was a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist. Here Peter Hain reports on his escape from South Africa, which he needed to effect to protect himself and his family...