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390 results found for '"Ships"' in Keywords.
Report 78 (1978)
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- Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Steve Harvey presents Report 78, a look back at the year’s major political and social events around the world. Speakers include Khalid Hammami, wife of murdered PLO politician Said Hammami; Terry Parry,...
Radio Caroline in bad weather (1979)
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- Interview
Radio Caroline DJ Tom Hardy on the Mi Amigo ship’s problems in bad weather.
Tanker towed into Sandown (1979)
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- Interview
Stephen Ross, Liberal MP for Isle of Wight, describes the public reaction to as well as the ecological and financial effects of towing the giant scuppered tanker Pacific Glory into Sandown Bay. The Glory was...
Sir Fred Bolton on the alternative construction of sailing ships (1979)
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- Interview
Sir Fred Bolton of the Ship and Marine Technology Requirements Board, on two studies the board has commissioned into the alternative construction of sailing ships, using conventional sail, wind turbine and...
Ships St Germain and Artadi collide (1979)
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- News report
Paul Beard reports on the collision of French train ferry St Germain with Liberian bulk carrier Artadi in fog, in the English Channel. Killed on the St Germain were schoolboy Nigel Bridgeman and a French...
Amoco Cadiz disaster causes (1979)
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- Interview
Interview with Gerald Cooper, Liberia’s commissioner for maritime affairs, on the causes of the grounding of the supertanker Amoco Cadiz off Brittany in 03/78, following a report into the world’s worst...
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.
Our kind of town (1979)
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- Feature
Our Kind of Town. Presented by Richard Robbins, from Greenwich. Includes interviews with Caroline Wilson, who lives in Vanbrugh Castle in Greenwich Park; Commander of the Royal Naval College, John Munday,...
Ferry-freighter collision in Channel (1979)
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- Interview
Bob Holness interviews a male eyewitness (not identified) after a Belgian ferry collided with a German freighter in the English Channel.
The London interview (1979)
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- Interview
Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic who has also worked in journalism and publishing. Her first biography, Nancy Cunard (1979), won the Silver PEN prize for non-fiction. In this edition of The London...