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Pierre Royan firing shots in Hackney council chamber (1986)
- Genre
- Special
Live audio coverage of starting pistol shots fired by Liberal Party councillor Pierre Royan in the council chamber in the London borough of Hackney, interrupting Sinn Fein speaker and Belfast councillor Alex...
A man’s best eyes (1987)
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- Documentary; Interview; Special
A Man’s Best Eyes. Presenter: Lawrence Spicer. Updated repeat of documentary, first broadcast in 1981, on the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA), coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary...
Just another Saturday (1987)
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- Interview; Documentary; Special; Drama
Just Another Saturday. Drama documentary, broadcast originally on Piccadilly Radio, of the Burnden Park football disaster in Bolton on 09/03/46. Produced and narrated by Tom Tyrell. Reconstructions of news...
Charles Dickens’ London (1987)
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- Interview; Documentary; Special
Charles Dickens’ London: Sean Street visits Dickens’ house in Doughty Street, Holborn, London, to find the reality of the Victorian city that inspired his work. Guide on tour: Alan Watts, Honorary...
A whole different ball game (1987)
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- Interview; Documentary; Advertisement; Special
It’s a Whole Different Ball Game. Documentary on American sports in Britain. Examines coverage of Superbowl on Channel 4; popularity of American football and baseball; history of American football;...
Life with Elvis (1987)
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- Interview; Documentary; Music; Special
Life with Elvis. Presented by Nigel Sharp. Documentary, originally broadcast on GWR, about Elvis Presley, through interview with Presley’s step-brother, David Stanley, who talks about the singer’s life,...
Ancient and modern (1987)
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- Interview; Documentary; Special
Ancient and Modern. Lawrence Spicer looks at four places of worship in the East End of London: Bevis Marks Synagogue, Aldgate; The Church of St Matthias, Poplar; East London Mosque, Whitechapel; Christ...
Lighter than air (1987)
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- Documentary; Interview; Special
Lighter than Air. Documentary on airships, fifty years after the Hindenburg disaster; examines British company, Airship Industries. Interviews with Alan Birchmore, Roger Munk, Nick Greenwood, Kerry Figgis,...
A forest of spires (1987)
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- Documentary; Interview; Music; Special
Documentary on the churches in the City of London. Covering the architecture (many built by Christopher Wren); relationship with big companies and their workers and the guilds; unusual traditional services...
Day in the life of a pain relief nurse (1987)
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- Documentary; Interview; Special
Sister Manson: documentary on a day in the life of an NHS pain relief nurse at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Includes interviews with staff: Sister Celia Manson; Brenda Faulkner; Natalie Tiddy. Female...