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Ford announces job cuts at its UK plants (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Ford spokesman Martin Watkins about the company’s decision to cut a thousand jobs at its UK plants. Worst hit is the giant Halewood factory on Merseyside where workers are already on a...
Government help for Gulf war captives (1991)
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- Interview
Interview (or press conference?) with former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath, about the announcement of Government help for former Gulf war captives. Heath says although the help for former hostages has been...
Queen’s cousin, Katherine Bowes-Lyon, secretly filmed (1991)
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- Interview
Mark Phillips interviews Martin Barclay, general manager of the Royal Earlswood Hospital in Surrey, following the secret filming by American television of the Queen’s mentally handicapped cousin,...
Operation Whittington targets teenage runaways (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Mark Phillips interviews Inspector Charles Barber, of the clubs and vice unit based at West End Central police station in Saville Row, on a police operation in central London, code-named Whittington, which...
BT announce 16,000 job cuts (1991)
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- Interview
George Matheson interviews Alan Tuffin, General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers (UCW) about the decision of British Telecom to axe 16,000 jobs over the next 18 months from engineering and...
Gulf war nurses exhibition (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Colonel June Kennedy about an exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas’s Hospital in London, of photographs and illustrations of nurses who staffed the hospitals during the...
David Mellor on latest economic figures (1991)
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- Interview
Interview with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Mellor, at the end of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. He talks about the latest economic statistics which show inflation figures...
Labour reaction to latest economic figures (1991)
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- Interview
Interview with shadow Chancellor, John Smith, responding to optimistic Government claims about the latest economic statistics which show inflation figures falling to their lowest level for three years, at...
Brixton Against Robbery crime prevention scheme (1991)
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- News report; Interview
Simon Hobbs reports on a youth crime prevention initiative in Brixton, South London, named Brixton Against Robbery (BAR). The project was set up in the aftermath of the Brixton riots in 1981 and has won the...
Senate Judiciary Committee hears case against Judge Clarence Thomas (1991)
- Genre
- Speech; News report
Paul Woodley reports from the United States on lengthy hearings before the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee. The senators are trying to discover the truth about allegations of sexually offensive behaviour...