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Landslide in New Zealand (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with a senior police sergeant in New Zealand describing the effects of a landslide in Dunedin (08/08/79). No one has been reported hurt in the slide, which has destroyed about seventeen acres of...
Ivor Richard on US ambassador’s resignation (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with British ambassador to the United Nations, Ivor Richard, on the resignation of his American equivalent, Andrew Young, following his controversial talks with the PLO. Male reporter not identified.
Seaman detained in USSR (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with the mother of Stephen Thomas, British merchant seaman detained in the USSR. Male interviewer not identified.
Hong Kong spokesman on security measures as Vietnamese refugees flood in (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Hong Kong’s Secretary for Security, Lewis Davies, on reinforcements to the British colony’s security forces following an influx of refugees from Vietnam. Male interviewer not identified.
Australian immigration minister on Vietnamese refugees (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with the Australian immigration minister (not identified - but poss. Michael MacKellar) where he calls for international pressure on the Vietnam Government over the issue of political refugees....
Vox pop with boat children (1979)
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- Interview; Vox pop
Vox pop with young Vietnamese refugees or boat children during a visit to Downing Street to hand in a petition calling on Britain to seek the expulsion of Vietnam from the United Nations for alleged...
Oil slick off Texas arrives from Mexico (1979)
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- Interview
Andrew Manderstam interviews an American male naturalist (not identified) about an oil slick off the coast of Texas. Nearly 20,000 barrels of oil a day are flowing from the Mexican government’s Ixtoc 1...
BBC exhibition banned in Poland (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene on the banning of a World Service exhibition in Warsaw by the Polish authorities. The exhibition was timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary...
Brian Hayes programme - Peter Bogdanovich on Saint Jack film (1979)
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- Interview
Brian Hayes interviews film director Peter Bogdanovich about his new film Saint Jack on a man trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore during the time of the Vietnam War.
Royal Commission on legal services (1979)
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- Interview
Two linked clips of an interview with Sir Henry Benson about the results of the Royal Commission on Legal Services. Male interviewer not identified.