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105 results found for '"Cornwall"' in Keywords.
Falmouth shipyard repair section closing down (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Ken Griffin, Deputy Chairman of the British Shipbuilders Union, on the decision to shut down the Falmouth Shipyard repair section. Female interviewer not identified. Audio interference.
Low profile police during South Africa rugby tour (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Chief Constable John Alderson in Exeter on policing levels ahead of the South African rugby tour matches in Devon and Cornwall and on anti-apartheid political protests that may occur at the...
Cannabis raid in Cornwall (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with customs officer Terry Byrne on a raid on cannabis smugglers in Cornwall, after a tip-off regarding the Guiding Light vessel. Male interviewer not identified.
Cornish barrel man on Atlantic crossing (1980)
- Genre
- 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...
Police lose appeal to protesters (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police reacting to losing an appeal after removing protesters from the site of an unidentified nuclear power station. Male speaker and interviewer not...
Sale of Land’s End (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview about the sale of Land’s End, what the estate includes and level of interest national and international. Male speaker and interviewer not identified.
Marconi transatlantic broadcast 80th anniversary (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Special
Report on the 80th anniversary and celebrations of the first transatlantic broadcast by Marconi. Includes morse code example; Ron Legerden(?) re-enacting the broadcast, speaking in Cornwall to Newfoundland...
Cannabis smugglers convicted (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Tim Crook reports on the case of 13 men convicted by Judge Richard Lowry of smuggling cannabis from north Africa to Cornwall. Includes an interview with the head of Scotland Yard’s drug squad who led...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Crew and conditions (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81, in which eight lifeboat men from Mousehole, Cornwall lost their lives trying to rescue another vessel. Speaker says there were four...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - New crew members already volunteering (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81. He says tragedies like this are unusual - the last lifeboat disaster was in Fraserburgh, Scotland in 1970. Within hours of the tragedy,...