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  • Bus fare-dodgers to be fined (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    London bus passengers will face on-the-spot fines if they don’t have a valid ticket. London Transport say they want to claw back some of the millions of pounds lost every year through fraud. Jeff...

  • Peter Wright tribute (1995)

    Genre
    Tribute

    Tribute to the late Peter Wright, MI5 spy famous for a bestseller on Whitehall ineptitude. Speaker possibly Rupert Allason MP (aka spy writer Nigel West). Sound is in mono.

  • Nurses pay dispute (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Press conference

    Jeff Collins reports on the nurses’ pay dispute, following RCN decision to ballot its members on abolishing their no-strike clause. Christine Hancock General Secretary announces the decision. Leaders of...

  • Shock jocks incite violence (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Talk show; Jingle

    Simon Marks, Washington correspondent reports on shock jocks or so-called hate radio being under attack for inciting right-wing hatred and possibly contributing to the Oklahoma city bombings. Oliver North...

  • Shock jocks in the UK? - Brian Hayes view (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    Phone interview with Australian-born broadcaster Brian Hayes on whether shock jocks and hate radio could spread from the USA to the UK - he thinks it unlikely, as we tend to present both sides of a point of...

  • Labour repeal Clause 4 (1995)

    Genre
    Speech

    Tony Blair, Labour leader makes an emotional speech to a special conference in central London following an historic vote to ditch their commitment to wholesale nationalisation (Clause 4), reforming the...

  • Labour repeals Clause 4 (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Political correspondent Max Cotton reports on the Labour conference in London today which voted to get rid of Clause 4 on wholesale nationalisation, in a victory for Tony Blair. Speaking at the conference...

  • Labour repeal Clause 4 (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    David Kermode speaks to Employment Secretary Michael Portillo who sees the Clause 4 victory (repeal of wholesale nationalisation clause at Labour conference) as a massive cynical U-turn designed to mislead...

  • Peter Cook death (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Obituary

    Alison Hodgkins reports from Hampstead on the memorial service for Peter Cook, comedian and satirist, with a church full of showbiz stars. Includes late Peter Cook speaking to reporter Simon Bates last...

  • Fish boom in Thames (1995)

    Genre
    Discussion

    Paul Chapman reports from the Thames at Putney on the fish population boom as the Thames gets cleaner. Speaks to National Rivers Authority fisheries expert Steve Colclough on increase in species and numbers....