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17 results found for '"Gypsies"' in Keywords.
Globe Theatre rebuilding delayed by Travellers’ encampment (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Mark Percy reports on the obstacle to film tycoon Sam Wanamaker’s plans to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on its original spot by the Thames posed by Irish Travellers camping on the site. Includes...
Search for Traveller boy with cancer (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Angus Moorat reports on the case of a young Irish Traveller boy, John Corcoran, who has been taken by his father from Mayday Hospital in Croydon, Surrey, prior to receiving cancer treatment. Police believe...
Government strengthens councils’ hand in Gypsy evictions (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Rowley interviews Government minister Sir George Young about legislation to help councils evict Gypsies and Travellers from unauthorised stopping places. Young attempts to justify the Government’s...
Criminal Justice Bill to affect road protests (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
Steve Jones interviews Camilla Berens, former Fleet Street journalist and one of the organisers of the protest against the controversial M3 motorway link through Twyford Down near Winchester in Hampshire,...
Demonstration against Criminal Justice Bill in London (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Max Cotton reports on a massive demonstration in London against the new Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, due to become law in autumn 1994. The legislation is being opposed by different groups such as...
Schoolchildren’s parents complain about Gypsies (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Parents accuse Gypsies (also referred to as Travellers in this report, so ethnic identity unclear) who stopped on a Chigwell school playing field of threatening the children, causing classes to be cancelled,...
Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz (1995)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Brian Ging reports on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz at the end of the Second World War. Includes interviews with: historian Dr David Cesarani, on the discovery...