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John Major calls for more women in top jobs (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister, John Major has called attention to the need for the recruitment of women to senior posts in the public services. Des Fahy reports.
Angela Rumbold on women in employment (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Home Office Minister, Angela Rumbold, Chairperson of the Ministerial Group on Women’s Issues, on the issues involved in women finding work, such as childcare, and how to cope with motherhood and a career....
Sheriff Glanz on stay of execution (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Sheriff Stanley Glanz of Oklahoma, USA on how a last-minute stay of execution prevented his having to carry out the execution of a death-row inmate, possibly with his own gun. Glanz describes how he would...
20th anniversary of UK vote to join EEC (1991)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
20 years since Westminster voted to join the EEC, MPs past and present gathered last night at a special dinner at the St Ermin’s Hotel in Westminster. Ted Heath, the chief protagonist, comments on the...
Kuwaiti Ambassador launches poppy appeal (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Kuwait Ambassador to Britain, Ghazi Al Rayes, pays tribute to British troops after launching the poppy appeal (for the first time on foreign soil) at the Kuwaiti Embassy in London. He describes the effects...
Peter Baldwin on new commercial radio station (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Britain is to get a second national commercial radio station on the AM medium wave band, which may be all music, or entirely speech based. The Radio Authority, the body which regulates the independent...
Queen opens new bridge at Dartford (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Music
The Queen has officially opened the new Queen Elizabeth II Bridge across the lower Thames at Dartford. She talks humorously about the benefits of the new road bridge. A brass band plays in the background....
Sister of Dessie Ellis on her brother’s imprisonment (1991)
- Genre
- Press conference
Sister of Dessie Ellis, a man imprisoned for making IRA bombs, who became the first person to be extradited from the Irish Republic under a new law, comments on the decision, claiming her brother should have...
Queen unveils new M25 bridge (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Karen Mills and an unidentified male reporter on the Queen’s opening of the new privately funded Queen Elizabeth II bridge in London to get around the Dartford Tunnel. With fanfares; singing of national...
Health Secretary on new patients charter (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Rowley interviews Health Secretary Willam Waldegrave on the new patients charter, designed to cut waiting lists in hopsitals, and improve the treatments of patients. Waldegrave explains the scheme,...