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Jagger divorce battle (1979)
- Genre
- News report
Report on the divorce battle between Bianca and Mick Jagger. After six years of marriage, Bianca is seeking a decree because of Mick’s alleged adultery with Texan model Jerry Hall. Bianca has challenged...
David Thomas on daughter’s murder (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
David Thomas is interviewed about the murder of his six year-old daughter, Kelly Thomas. He says that friends and neighbours have been brilliant, especially Nora and Bill Fowlett(?). The Police have appealed...
Lester Chapman Inquiry (1979)
- Genre
- News report
A report on the inquiry into the death of 8 year-old Lester Chapman, whose body was found in a ditch. A 68-page report was compiled on the troubled Chapman family as there were suspicions that social workers...
Martin Flannery MP on Princess Margaret remarks about Irish (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour MP, Martin Flannery on Princess Margaret’s remarks about the Irish. She is reported to have referred to the Irish as pigs during a visit to America shortly after the assassination of...
Nobel Peace Prize - Dave Loyn surveys the field (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Dave Loyn reports on the fifty-six nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. Amnesty International and Northern Ireland Peace People are among the previous winners; a recording of Mairead Corrigan is included in...
Colleague asked about Harry Johnson’s Pools win (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with unidentified male colleague of Harry Johnson, who has just won the Pools. He thinks Johnson will now retire from his teaching job at Little Moss County Secondary Boys School. He found out that...
Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Interview with Eliza Hermitage, who is 101 years old and has just been down the world’s first underground mining museum, Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Museum director Jonathan...
Appeal by Yorkshire Ripper victim’s mother (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Jill Lourie interviews Beryl Leach, mother of Barbara Leach, one of the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims. There is a description of the initial phone call from the police, general information about Barbara’s...
Blair Peach inquest re-opened (1979)
- Genre
- News report
Report on the re-opening of the inquest into Blair Peach’s death. Peach was allegedly beaten by policemen at a demonstration against the National Front held by the Anti-Nazi League, outside Southall Town...
Harry Johnson wins the Pools (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Pools winner Harry Johnson, who tells how he was watching a television programme on Rome when a man came to the door to tell him that he had won the Pools. Johnson is a school teacher and the...