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Amoco Cadiz oil spill (1978)
- Genre
- News report
Report on the Amoco Cadiz crude oil tanker which split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany on 16/03/78 resulting in a large oil spill. Captain Pasqaule...
British couples murdered in France (1978)
- Genre
- News report
Ten months after the murder of a British couple, the Brodericks, in St Tropez, comes the murder of another couple, the Mosses, in Cannes. The French authorities have been led to a chief suspect whom they...
Transatlantic balloon crossing attempt (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Don Cameron and Christopher Davey aim to be the first men to cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon. The Zanussi balloon also doubles as a boat, should they come down into the Atlantic. Both men are...
Hungarian Circle trial (1978)
- Genre
- News report
Report on the sentencing at the Old Bailey in London in the trial of five members of the so-called Hungarian Circle, a criminal organisation that tried to defraud banks of millions of dollars with forged...
Prince of Wales targeted in Newcastle bottle attack (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
A royal visit by the Prince of Wales to Newcastle turned into an attack as a local man threw a bottle at the Prince’s slow-moving car. The bottle shattered the window and the man was apprehended by the...
Select Committee report on Civil Service (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Ed Boyle reports on a House of Commons Select Committee on the Civil Service; speeches (recorded at the committee meeting) by Michael English; Brian Sedgemore; Sir Ian Bancroft; Lord Fred Peart.
Dinner ban on MP (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Peter Allen reports on a complaint by Nicholas Fairbairn MP, that he had been banned by the Ministry of Defence from a mess dinner at HMS Caledonia to which he had been invited; looks at inadequate response...
Conservative committee on unions (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Report on a story in The Times newspaper about a secret Conservative Party committee, chaired by Lord Carrington (Peter Carington), on defeating the trade unions, if the Tories return to power at the next...
Parliament gym (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on a gymnasium being installed at the Houses of Parliament; also on televising of Parliament; interviews with Al Murray, gym organiser; George Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons; Denis Howell,...
Liddle Towers case (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the decision of Attorney General Samuel Silkin, to reopen the case of Liddle Towers who died in police custody in County Durham (05/02/76); includes interview with sister, Marion Woods; solicitor,...