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Ruling on child maintenance (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with a female speaker (poss. Judith Hart MP) about a legal case in Scotland where Sheriff Neil Gow ruled 22-year-old Christine Main should receive only one pound a week maintenance for her...
Tory MP on benefits abuse (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with a male Conservative MP (poss. Patrick Jenkin) about potential abuse of the UK benefits system by foreign nationals. Male interviewer not identified.
EEC scrumpy regulations (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with North Devon MP Tony Speller? about European proposals to regulate taxation of alcoholic beverages in EEC countries, affecting local cider and scrumpy producers in the UK’s West Country...
Council house policy - Frank Allaun’s view (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Labour Party president Frank Allaun, on his opposition to Conservative Party proposals to allow the partial buying of council houses as proposed by minister John Stanley. He says the policy...
Silkin on Labour row (1979)
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- Interview
Peter Allen interviews former agriculture minister John Silkin on the row within the Labour Party following their defeat in the 1979 General Election and prior to the Party conference.
Nigel Hopton’s death sentence commuted to life (1979)
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- Interview
Telephone interview with Mrs and Mrs Norman Hopton, the parents of convicted murderer Nigel Hopton, after his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in Jersey. Male interviewer not identified.
Peter Walker on farming advisors (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Peter Walker, agriculture minister, on the appointment of five business advisors, Ann Burdus, Detta O’Cathain, John Cross, John Sainsbury, Dennis Stevenson, to investigate the problems in...
Bomb in Benidorm hotel (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with a male speaker (not identified) about a bomb attack on a hotel in the Spanish holiday resort of Benidorm (29/06/79). The bomb was one of a series in Spanish resorts planted by the Basque...
Future of Cyprus (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with a male speaker (not identified) about the future of Cyprus and the possible involvement of Britain prior to talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on 15/06/79. The speaker mentions Cyprus...
Dobson on oil sales to South Africa (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Labour MP, Frank Dobson, about BP oil sales to South Africa prior to being transferred to Rhodesia. Such transactions controvene the oil sanctions agreed in the Bingham Report. Male inteviewer...