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240 results found for '"Diseases"' in Keywords.
New cure for pneumonia (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Dr M. Emmerson on the new cure for pneumonia and the working days lost through acute respiratory illnesses in the UK. Female interviewer not identified.
Using drugs on children in care (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Report on the growing concern over use of drugs to control mentally ill or out of control children in care. Includes interviews with psychiatrist Dr Colin Brewer who believes drugs are used excessively; Eric...
Views on Stalin (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, his paranoia and the rewriting of his period of government and policies, he is now seen as an embarrasment. And what he would think of the state of the USSR today....
Armed forces - Conditions in Northern Ireland (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Northern Ireland Secretary, Roy Mason) on conditions facing British armed forces in Northern Ireland, following an incident involving a British soldier who was returned to...
Laboratory diseases increase (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male (Welsh) speaker (poss. ASTMS General Secretary, Clive Jenkins) on an increase in diseases amongst laboratory workers in the UK. Male interviewer not identified.
Michael Smith on vasectomies (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Dr Michael Smith, Chief Medical Officer of the Family Planning Association, on the possible impact of vasectomy upon men’s health. Smith reacts to a US study on monkeys which appears to demonstrate a...
Anthony Nolan laboratories open (1980)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on a memorial service and the opening of a bone marrow unit at St Mary Abbots Hospital in west London in memory of Anthony Nolan, who died on 21/10/79 due to the lack of a marrow donor. Includes...
Boy receives cancer drug - MP criticises press (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the administration of anti-viral drug Interferon to cancer sufferer, 14 year-old Fergal O’Harte. He criticises press coverage of the case as being sensationalist. Female...
Our kind of town (1980)
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary
This week’s edition of Our Kind of Town is presented by Keith Howell and examines River Thames floods and flood prevention past and present including the Thames Barrier which is under construction....
Our kind of town (1980)
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary
This week’s edition of Our Kind of Town is presented by Keith Howell. In the first half Company Director of Lock and Co hatters (who invented the bowler), Frank Yardley(?), talks about the history of the...