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A closer look at the Lester Chapman Inquiry (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the inquiry into the death of missing schoolboy Lester Chapman, whose body was found in a ditch. Includes comment from Sir Anthony Durant, who does not think the tragedy could have been avoided;...
1988 Olympic Games - GLC leader on expenditure (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
John Perkins interviews Sir Horace Cutler, Leader of the Greater London Council, on his opinion of the preliminary 1988 Olympics report. The evaluation includes details of the expenditure expected for the...
How to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee? (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Horace Cutler, leader of the Greater London Council, is interviewed about the idea of holding the World Trade Fair on the derelict Docklands. The idea was put forward as a way of celebrating the...
David Thomas on daughter’s murder (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
David Thomas is interviewed about the murder of his six year-old daughter, Kelly Thomas. He says that friends and neighbours have been brilliant, especially Nora and Bill Fowlett(?). The Police have appealed...
Martin Flannery MP on Princess Margaret remarks about Irish (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour MP, Martin Flannery on Princess Margaret’s remarks about the Irish. She is reported to have referred to the Irish as pigs during a visit to America shortly after the assassination of...
Nobel Peace Prize - Dave Loyn surveys the field (1979)
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- Interview; News report; Speech
Dave Loyn reports on the fifty-six nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. Amnesty International and Northern Ireland Peace People are among the previous winners; a recording of Mairead Corrigan is included in...
Colleague asked about Harry Johnson’s Pools win (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with unidentified male colleague of Harry Johnson, who has just won the Pools. He thinks Johnson will now retire from his teaching job at Little Moss County Secondary Boys School. He found out that...
Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Interview with Eliza Hermitage, who is 101 years old and has just been down the world’s first underground mining museum, Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Museum director Jonathan...
Appeal by Yorkshire Ripper victim’s mother (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Jill Lourie interviews Beryl Leach, mother of Barbara Leach, one of the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims. There is a description of the initial phone call from the police, general information about Barbara’s...
Harry Johnson wins the Pools (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Pools winner Harry Johnson, who tells how he was watching a television programme on Rome when a man came to the door to tell him that he had won the Pools. Johnson is a school teacher and the...