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  1. Sid Weighell on possible rail strikes (1975)

    Genre
    Interview

    NUR leader Sid Weighell is interviewed about the possibility of rail strikes taking place. He claims everything is being done to avoid industrial action, but the strikes will go ahead if the Prime Minister...

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  2. National rail strike call (1982)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with General Secretary of the NUR, Sid Weighell, on a call for a national rail strike over flexible rostering and wages. Male interviewer not identified (poss. John Perkins?).

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  3. McCarthy inquiry into rail dispute (1982)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with General Secretary of the NUR, Sid Weighell, responding to the recommendations of the McCarthy inquiry into the recent rail dispute. Female interviewer not identified (poss. Antonia Higgs?).

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  4. Sid Weighell on Labour splits (1981)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Sid Weighell, General Secretary of the NUR, criticising the splits in the Labour Party as being disruptive to the action planned by the unions and criticising Tony Benn for stirring up...

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  5. Possible rail strike (1982)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Phil Longman reports on the conference of the National Union of Railwayman (NUR) with discussion focusing on a possible rail strike over the introduction of flexible rostering by British Rail. Includes...

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  6. Threats to Sid Weighell’s life (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with former General Secretary of the NUR Sid Weighell as he promotes his book entitled A Hundred Years of Railway Weighells. He talks about attemps made on his life during the rail dispute of 1982....

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  7. Train drivers’ strike (1978)

    Genre
    News report

    Peter Spencer reports on the forthcoming one-day strike by train drivers, and inter-union conflict. Contributions from William (Bill) Rodgers, Transport Secretary; Sid Weighell, NUR leader; Ray Buckton,...

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  8. People’s March for Jobs arrives in London (1981)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Report on the end of the People’s March for Jobs, as the march reaches London. The protest is intended to raise awareness of the plight of the country’s unemployed. Includes a speech by Sid Weighell,...

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  9. British couples murdered in France (1978)

    Genre
    News report

    Ten months after the murder of a British couple, the Brodericks, in St Tropez, comes the murder of another couple, the Mosses, in Cannes. The French authorities have been led to a chief suspect whom they...

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  10. Campaign for posthumous pardon for Derek Bentley (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Iris Bentley, sister of Derek Bentley, who was hanged for the murder of PC Sidney Miles in 1953, on continuing the family campaign to secure a posthumous pardon for him. She speaks of her involvement with a...

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