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GLC drop Docklands relief road bill (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with GLC Planning Chairman Alan Greengross on the Council’s continued commitment to the Docklands Southern Relief Road despite its decision to drop a Parliamentary bill which would have pushed it...
Borough council alternatives to Docklands relief road (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Southwark council leader John O’Grady criticising GLC leader Horace Cutler’s proposed Docklands Southern Relief Road, and setting out the alternative road development proposals put...
Meriden Motorcycles finance plans (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP and Chief Executive of Britain’s first worker’s cooperative, Meriden Motorcycles, on the company’s plans to seek foreign investment to finance outstanding...
Support for seat belts bill (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with President of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Douglas Black, on their support for the Parliamentary bill requiring the compulsory wearing of seatbelts, in order to reduce the number of...
Southwark council opposition to Docklands relief road (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Southwark council leader John O’Grady on the council’s opposition to the GLC’s proposed Docklands Southern Relief Road, which he argues will have a detrimental effect on the Rotherhithe...
BR sex discrimination case (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview (with Eileen Garland?) on the judgement in the sex discrimination case brought under the Equal Opportunities Act over travel facility privileges for retired British Rail staff, which has now been...
US arrest in sex in chains case (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Interview
Report on the North Carolina arrest of former beauty queen Joyce McKinney and Keith May, on the run since jumping bail in Britain on charges that they kidnapped her former lover, Mormon missionary Kirk...
Celebrity items in Sotheby’s sale (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a Sotheby’s auction house spokesman on the forthcoming sale of Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1919 diary, written over a six week period before he was committed to a Zurich...
Barbiturate restriction plans (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with John Shackle of Release on plans to restrict the use of barbitrates, which are currently widely prescribed by GPs, rather than provide addiction facilities. Male interviewer not identified....
Barbiturate use restrictions (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Dr Max Glatt of the British Journal of Drug Addiction on the dangers and effects of barbiturate use, and planned restrictions on their prescription. Female interviewer not identified.