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39,247 results found for all records.
Victor the giraffe (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Three progress reports on Victor, the giraffe at Marwell Park Zoo in Hampshire, who did the splits and was unable to stand upright again (and eventually died). Zoo spokesmen talk about Victor’s condition,...
Love and attraction conference (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Tom O’Carroll (leader of the Paedophile Information Exchange group), on being forcibly removed from the Love and Attraction conference, Swansea University, 09/77 (possibly at the behest of NUPE members?)....
Paedophilia (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Dr Edward Brongersma, Dutch MP, on what he sees as the difference between paedophilia and child abuse. Calls for the abolition of all laws forbidding sexual relations between adults and children, and...
Love and attraction conference (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Several clips in which a variety of delegates at the Love and Attraction conference, Swansea, September 1977 (and possibly outside commentators) speak about a range of topics including female sexuality; sexy...
Paedophile conference (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Two clips, featuring firstly Conservative MP Rhodes Boyson, the second, Chairman of the British Union of Family Organisations (poss. Maurice O’Leary) respond to the planning of a London conference by a...
London’s West Indian community (1977)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; Music; Vox pop
Di Latham reports from Brixton, London on the West Indian community following riots at the Notting Hill Carnival in 08/76 and violence at the Carnival in 1977. Includes interviews with Tony Douglas, West...
King’s Cross pub bomb (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with eyewitnesses to a bomb explosion in the Northumberland Arms public house in King’s Cross, London on 14/10/77; includes interview with unidentified policeman; Brendan O’Sullivan, manager....
Mary Bell moved to open prison (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Linda Allen, ex-fellow prison inmate of convicted child murderer Mary Bell, on why Bell doesn’t want to be moved to an open prison. Interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono.
Mary Bell absconds (1977)
- Genre
- Vox pop
Dave Newman interviews residents who witnessed convicted child murderer Mary Bell’s recapture after absconding from Moor Court open prison in Staffordshire on 11/9/77. She was recaptured on 13/9/77.
Gitta Sereny on Mary Bell (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Gitta Sereny, author of a book on convicted child murderer Mary Bell. She says that the publicity generated by Bell’s escape from open prison may have an adverse effect. Male interviewer not...