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240 results found for '"Diseases"' in Keywords.
Mary Whitehouse and Arthur Scargill on sex in the media (1974)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Mary Whitehouse and Arthur Scargill about the way that sex is portrayed in the media and how this has affected the rates of venereal disease. The interviewer is David Frost.
Hayes at the weekend (1977)
- Genre
- Discussion; Interview; Talk show
Brian Hayes revisits his show this week: talks to Energy Secretary Tony Benn about North Sea oil extraction, nuclear energy and the type of fuel Britain can look to in the future; to Dr Robert Sharpe about...
Arthur Matthews, ex-butler on Idi Amin (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Part of an interview by Peter Sharp with Arthur Matthews, former butler of Ugandan President, Idi Amin. He speaks about Amin’s personality and habits and his own fear of being sent to prison and mixed...
Hayes on Sunday (1977)
- Genre
- Book review; Discussion; Interview; Phone-in
Hayes on Sunday revisits the week’s shows with guests: Bryan Magee MP and novelist on his book Facing Death, terminal care and our own mortality, and takes phone call on experience of father dying. Sue...
Typhoid scare in Deptford (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Dr Tom Trace about a typhoid scare in Deptford, south London. Interviewer not identified.
Diseases from outer space (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle on his theory that diseases come from outer space with comets, based on strange statistics of flu epidemics. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Tony Tucker).
Electric power dispute (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Neil Cripps on why people on kidney dialysis machines, like himself, are being badly affected by the current strike by electric power workers. Discussion of the effects of prolonged power cuts...
Birmingham smallpox outbreak (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified hospital spokesman (poss. Jim Clayton?) on the Birmingham smallpox outbreak. 40 year-old Janet Parker died early this morning (11/09/78), but 260 others have been cleared by the...
Smallpox outbreak in Birmingham (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on an outbreak of smallpox at a medical laboratory in Birmingham where anatomical photographer Janet Parker has caught the disease. The WHO’s Dr Ian Carter is flying in to investigate and some...
Smallpox in Birmingham (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with an unidentified male speaker (poss. James McGee of the World Health Organisation (WHO)) on the control of an outbreak of smallpox from a laboratory in Birmingham and the WHO’s role in the...