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Rail passengers on price and quality of train travel (1981)
- Genre
- Vox pop
Vox pop with four unidentified male and four unidentified female rail travellers, on the cost of rail travel and the quality of trains. Reporter not heard.
Thatcher visit to Toxteth after riot (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop
Report on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s surprise visit to the site of the Liverpool riot in the Toxteth area of the city and Princes Park Hospital which was affected by the riots. Includes vox pop...
Outbursts of skinhead trouble (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Special; Vox pop
Mike Rowbottom reports on sporadic outbursts of hooliganism from white skinheads across London, notably in Woolwich where a group had assembled to watch a band in a local music venue. Includes actuality of...
Aftermath of Brixton police raid (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop; Interview
Dave Loyn? reports on a police raid in Brixton where private homes and property were said to be destroyed by the police with sledgehammers and knives, working on a tip-off that they would find petrol bomb...
Rail unions to merge (1981)
- Genre
- Vox pop
Views of members on the plans to bring all rail unions under one federation and on previous disagreements between rail unions ASLEF and NUR. Male speakers and interviewer not identified.
PC Nobbs on beat around Southall following riots (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
PC John Nobbs on his beat around Southall after the riots, started when the Hamborough Tavern burned down after fights between skinheads and Asian youths. With comment from unnamed white female shopkeeper...
Rioting in Southall (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special; Vox pop
Report on rioting in Southall, London. Local people describe the events in the streets. Subhash Panchal(?), owner of the local garage gives his story. Butcher, John Beaman tells how his business was affected...
Riots in Peckham (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop
Report on rioting in Peckham where shop windows got broken. Youths fought outside a fairground on Peckham Rye. The fighting was between black youths and white skinheads. Local residents give their version of...
CND rally in Hyde Park (1981)
- Genre
- Speech; Vox pop
Speeches by Labour Party leader Michael Foot and historian and anti-nuclear activist E P (Edward Palmer) Thompson at the CND rally in Hyde Park, London. And interviews with those on the march to the rally,...
Prince Charles visits Toxteth (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech; Vox pop
Report on Prince Charles, Prince of Wales’ visit to Toxteth, Liverpool, which saw riots earlier in the year, to open David Lewis Youth Club, partially funded by the Prince’s Trust. Speaking are chairman...