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Labour majority in GLC (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified (Conservative) male speaker predicts bad times for London after the Labour Party won a majority in the Greater London Council. Interviewer not heard.
Michael Heseltine on Labour Party expenditure (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Michael Heseltine, Environment Secretary, expresses his concern that the Labour policy of high spending will discourage investment and industry. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Peter Murphy).
Economic recovery boosts morale (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on rising morale in industry, as a result of the economic recovery. He accepts that people in some sectors are finding it easier to be optimistic than those in others. Male...
French Presidential handover (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report and interview with Times correspondent in Paris, Ian Murray, about the process of the transfer of power between outgoing French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing and newly elected Francois...
Northern Ireland human rights case (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Kim Sabido? reports and talks to MP Harold McCusker about the Belfast Human Rights Unit which is submitting evidence to the European Commission of Human Rights over civilians in Northern Ireland affected by...
Hunger striker Raymond McCreesh dies (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Obituary; Interview
Report on the death of hunger striker Raymond McCreesh. His brother, Catholic priest, Father Brian McCreesh, explains why his brother joined the hunger strike in the H-Block at the Maze Prison in Belfast....
Ian Paisley on local election success (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
After the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) success in local elections, leader Ian Paisley talks about what he would like Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to do about the violence in Northern Ireland. Male...
Violence after hunger striker Patsy O’Hara dies (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Mervyn Jess reports back on outbreaks of violence after the death of hunger striker Patsy O’Hara, prisoner at the Maze Prison, Belfast. Male studio reporter not identified.
Michael Canavan on plastic bullets (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with SDLP spokesman, Michael Canavan, calling for an end to the use of plastic bullets to enforce law and order in Northern Ireland. Female interviewer not identified.
Marcella Sands on Bobby Sands’ condition (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Marcella Sands, sister of hunger striker Bobby Sands, talks to Eamonn Mallie? about her brother’s condition in the hospital wing of the Maze Prison. Speaking the day before he died.