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41 results found for '"Atlantic Ocean"' in Keywords.
Proposed Atlantic air balloon crossing (1978)
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- Interview
Don Cameron on his proposed crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon. On cutting the distance by starting in Newfoundland rather than the USA, and on the design of the balloon, the influence of wind...
Cross-Atlantic balloon record attempts (1978)
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- Interview
Interview with unidentified British male (presumably Don Cameron or Christopher Davey) in the wake of the American team’s record crossing of the Atlantic by hot air balloon. The speaker talks about his own...
US balloonists’ record Atlantic crossing (1978)
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- Interview
Interview with unidentified American male (presumably Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman or Max Anderson) on his team’s successful attempt to cross the Atlantic by hot air balloon (16/08/78). He also pays tribute...
Our kind of town (1979)
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- Interview
Our Kind of Town. Part two of a two-part programme presented by Keith Howell (the first part having featured author Frank Huggett). His guest, author Frank Mulville, talks about his book, Schooner Integrity,...
Chay Blyth on Transatlantic sailing race (1980)
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- Interview
Interview with yachtsman Chay Blyth about his participation - along with Rob James, husband of Dame Naomi James - in the 1981 Observer double-handed Transatlantic race. Male interviewer not identified (poss....
Cornish barrel man on Atlantic crossing (1980)
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- Interview
Interview with 61-year-old lone sailor Ted McNamara after his failed attempt to cross the Atlantic from Sennen Cove in Cornwall to Florida in the United States in a five foot long glass fibre barrel. Male...
Eve Bonham on Two Star Transatlantic Yacht Race (1981)
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- News report; Interview
Report by Eve Bonham from Hello World, one of the yachts in the two-handed transatlantic race. She explains how she diverted to the Scilly Isles after experiencing problems with the rudder and is now 12...
Greenpeace nuclear waste protest (1982)
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- News report; Interview
Report on the refusal of Dutch members of Greenpeace to abide by an injunction (granted in the UK) prohibiting them from interfering with Britain’s annual dumping of radioactive waste in the Atlantic....
Bill Dunlop arrives in Falmouth after Atlantic record attempt (1982)
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- News report; Interview
Report on the arrival in Falmouth, Cornwall of American lone seaman Bill Dunlop after his record-breaking sailing attempt across the Atlantic. Includes interview with Bill Dunlop. Male reporter not...
Greenpeace protest abandoned (1982)
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- News report; Interview
Report on an alleged victory for the UK Atomic Energy Authority after Greenpeace protesters abandoned their vigil on waste ships following the ruling of Judge Benjamin Asscher in a Dutch court hearing over...