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Tube drivers set for possible all out strike (1995)
- Genre
- Discussion; Interview; News report; Speech
Alison Hodgkins reports on deadlock in the tube drivers’ dispute over wages and reduction in working week with strikes set by tube drivers for next week. Includes interview with Lew Adams of ASLEF.
Tube drivers dispute (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Representing the employers’ side in the tube drivers dispute negotiations over wages and working hours is Ann Burfutt, Director of Human Resources for London Underground. She speaks to John Terrett who...
Water supplies restricted due to drought (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Alison Hodgkins reports on water restrictions during the recent heatwave. Speaks to chairman of the Water Services Association (responsible for the ten privatised companies) Nicholas Hood on why there are...
Iraqi defectors claim Hussein may start war (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Washington correspondent Simon Marks reports on the war of words between Iraq and the United States intensifying, and on American military readiness in the Persian Gulf including the USA sending fourteen...
Iraqi defectors claim Hussein may start war (1995)
- Genre
- News report
William McLean reports from Kuwait on the weakening position of President Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the reaction of the USA to threats from Iraq about a possible new invasion of Kuwait. UN is currently in...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Interviews with Cally Fleming, a family friend, and husband Jim Ballard, about the death of mountaineer Alison Hargreaves in an avalanche during an attempt on the world’s second highest mountain, K2 in...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Jim Ballard, husband of record-breaking climber Alison Hargreaves, who has died in an avalanche on K2, describes to Chris Mann how he has coped with the wait for news over the last few days and the plans...
Female record climber dies on K2 (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; Obituary
Chris Mann talks to Jim Ballard, husband of record-breaking climber Alison Hargreaves who has died in an avalanche on K2. Chris first asks Jim to react to a tabloid report by Daily Express journalist Lynette...
Alison Hargreaves describes her conquest of Everest (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Archive clip of mountaineer Alison Hargeaves talking on her conquest of Everest, without oxygen, and on her own for the last stage. She told Richard Vaughan about the loneliness of the mountains. Now...
US diplomats killed near Sarajevo (1995)
- Genre
- Press conference
President Bill Clinton gives his reaction at a press conference to the deaths of three US diplomats near Sarajevo by landmine and says they would wish the peace process in the former Yugoslavia to continue.