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Training bouncers and doormen (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the role of bouncers at nightclubs and the level of training they receive. Speaker has written to Home Secretary Merlyn Rees and Environment Secretary Peter Shore, urging them to...
Last Concorde at Filton (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Lew Gray, union official at British Aerospace, about the last Concorde aircraft to be built at Filton in Bristol. Male interviewer not identified.
BL toolroom dispute (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the possible return to work of toolroom strikers at British Leyland plants in the UK. Includes interview with strike organiser Roy Fraser. Male reporter not identified.
Briton imprisoned in Mexico for drug smuggling (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the British consul in Mexico City, David Dewberry, on the case of Dee McStravick, British subject, sentenced to five years in a Mexican prison for smuggling cannabis. Male interviewer not...
Great Ormond Street plans (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Colonel Michael Barraclough, secretary of Great Ormond Street Homeopathic Teaching Faculty, on NHS plans to close it down and the possibility of its privatisation. Male interviewer not...
Swan lead deaths (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with environment minister Denis Howell on the setting up of a working party to investigate the death of swans from lead poisoning on Britain’s waterways. Male interviewer not identified. Sound...
Roger Hibberd, kidney patient, on operation (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with kidney transplant patient, Roger Hibberd, on the success of the operation at St Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth and his forthcoming trip on Concorde (the second trip for his kidney). Male...
Briton imprisoned in Mexico for drug smuggling (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Gould interviews Dee McStravick, British subject, following her sentencing to five years in a Mexican prison for smuggling cannabis. She describes conditions in the jail. Telephone interview.
Tip O’Neill’s remarks on Northern Ireland (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Conservative (opposition) MP John Stokes where he criticises US House Speaker Tip O’Neill for his remark that Britain is playing political football with strife-torn Northern Ireland. Male...
Tip O’Neill’s remarks on Northern Ireland (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath on remarks made by US House Speaker Tip O’Neill suggesting Britain is playing political football with strife-torn Northern Ireland. He also comments on...