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Selling off assets (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Unidentified (elderly, English?) male speaker on hard-up individuals and states commonly needing to sell their assets: Georgian silver, furniture, Canalettos. Response of audience is one of amusement.
Nurses’ pay restructured (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (presumably a government spokesman) on the pay grading structure for nurses.
Rival team finally respond? (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified (English?) male speaker tells how they begged another party (possibly a sporting team?) to come here, but could get no response up until a year ago. Crowd noise, possibly urging on a team?
This is your life (1989)
- Genre
- Special; Speech
Eamonn Andrews? (died November 1987; succeeded by Michael Aspel) tells unidentified celebrity, This Is Your Life, with music from the television series of that name. No other information.
Author on wars and writing (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified (English?) male author, talking about wars and his writing. Interviewer’s words not included.
Country unable to cope with nuclear attack (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Unidentified (North American?) male speaker, indicating that in the light of being so hard pressed to deal with the 300 victims of a nuclear reactor accident, the country is surely poorly equipped to deal...
Fire on North Sea oil platform? (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
2 clips, possibly about the Piper Alpha oil platform fire of July 1988. Unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells of his escape from a fire by jumping; another unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells...
Fireball and crater (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified (Liverpudlian or North West English?) male speaker tells how a ball of fire rose 300 feet into the air, to form a mushroom cloud; he also describes the crater left below.
Game goes ahead (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified (English?) male speaker says he is happy that the game has taken place, for the good of the game, but because his team(?) were in the right, they have lost some self-respect.
Benazir Bhutto on leadership? (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified female speaker (poss. Benazir Bhutto?), saying she feels confident to lead the country (poss. Pakistan?).