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Rise in interest rates totals 5 percent (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News bulletin; News report; Speech
LBC Newstalk 17.00 news bulletin with Brian Widlake focusing on the decision of Chancellor Norman Lamont to impose an unprecedented five percent rise in interest rates as the value of the pound continues to...
Britain suspended from ERM (1992)
- Genre
- Press conference; Speech
Statement by Chancellor Norman Lamont, announcing Britain’s membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) has been suspended. The additional three percent rise in interest rates scheduled for...
Work commences on new Severn bridge (1992)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Malcolm Brown reports on the start of work on a new toll bridge linking England and Wales which is intended to lessen the pressure on the Severn Bridge and has been funded mainly by private enterprise. The...
Duke on rural poverty (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Stephanie West interviews Britain’s richest man, the Duke of Westminster (Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor), who says people in rural areas are being driven to suicide because of Government neglect. The...
Bomb attacks on London museums (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Peter Deeley reports on the detonation of four bombs at three London museums - Madame Tussauds, The Planetarium, and the Imperial War Museum. No one was injured and the damage was minimal. The speakers...
Forsyth on unemployment rise (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Rowley interviews Employment Secretary Michael Forsyth about a rise in unemployment which is now at its highest level for five years. Forsyth says the rise is regrettable.
Joyce Quin on unemployment rise (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Rowley interview Labour employment spokesman, Joyce Quin, about a rise in unemployment which is now at its highest level for five years. She says the rise is an indictment of the Government’s economic...
Gordon Brown on sterling crisis (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Martin Young interviews shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown who is in the Westminster studio, about the crisis over the pound following Britain being forced to withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism...
Alan Beith on sterling crisis (1992)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Des Fahy reports on a speech by Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Alan Beith at the party’s conference in Harrogate, where he attacks the Government’s handling of the sterling crisis following Britain...
Paddy Ashdown on sterling crisis (1992)
- Genre
- Speech
Keynote speech extract by Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown at the party’s conference in Harrogate, where he attacks the Government and Prime Minister John Major’s handling of the sterling crisis...