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Betty Williams on women’s peace movement (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Vivian White interviews Mrs Betty Williams about the women’s peace movement, which grew up in the wake of the deaths of the Maguire children in West Belfast. Williams denies being an organiser of the...
Skytrain case successeful (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with low budget airline founder Freddie Laker about his successful case against the government at the high court to allow his Skytrain planes to fly daily chartered flights to America. Male...
Ambassador’s widow gives speech (1976)
- Genre
- Speech
Address to the Irish people by Jane Ewart-Biggs, broadcast after her husband’s memorial service in Dublin. The late Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador to Ireland, was killed by an IRA landmine...
Criminal’s guilt (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Steve Sailah interviews Herbert Stratton of Acomb, York, about a letter he has written to Detective Chief Superintendent Arthur Harrison of North Yorkshire CID, confessing to the death in a road accident of...
Gerry Fitt’s wife describes break-in by mob (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Anne Fitt, wife of SDLP leader and founder Gerry Fitt, on a violent intrusion into the family home by a mob of 30 or more men and women. She praises her husband’s courage and calmness and...
Liverpool peace rally (1976)
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- Interview; Music; News report; Speech
Unidentified male reports from the first peace rally to be held outside of Ireland - in Liverpool. The rally, attended by some 5,000 people, was organised by Muriel Young; her sister-in-law of Betty...
Ian Smith speech (1976)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, about lack of progress of Anglo-American settlement talks; blames Britain.
London peace rally (1976)
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- Interview; Music; Speech
Jane Ewart-Biggs speaks in an interview about her late husband’s (UK ambassador to Ireland killed by IRA landmine) hopes for peace in Ireland, and how she hopes she can turn the waste of his death into...
Rhodesia child volunteers - Ian Smith view (1976)
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- News report; Speech
Report on Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith’s suggestion that schoolchildren may have gone to Botswana as volunteers supporting the Patriotic Front in armed struggle in the country. Includes speech by Ian...
Cecil King and wife tied up and robbed (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Steve Sailah interviews Ruth King, wife of former Mirror Group owner Cecil King, in which she describes how she and her husband were tied up and robbed by masked gunmen at their home in Dublin, Ireland...