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  1. Prisoners tunnel way to freedom (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on a police manhunt for two convicts, William Anderson and Alieu Ceesay, who tunnelled their way out of Pentonville Prison. Includes interview with Detective Inspector Michael Parkes. Male reporter...

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  2. George Best in prison (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Bill McMurdo, manager of former footballer George Best, talks to Kevin Murphy about his being moved from Pentonville to Ford Open Prison after being arrested on charges of driving with excess alcohol and...

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  3. Student jailed over Patrick Harrington demonstrations (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with the unidentified female relative of one of two students (either Steven Tasane or John Letham) who have been jailed at Pentonville Prison for fourteen days for defying a court injunction and...

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  4. Prison life museum opens (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Interview

    The Governors of Pentonville and Holloway Prisons have opened the House of Detention underground in Clerkenwell, a museum about prison life in times past. Includes on the museum and prison life then and now...

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  5. Prison conditions (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Report on the findings of the Woolf report, which recommends improvement of conditions in prisons. Comments from an inmate at Pentonville prison in London; Chairman of the Prison Officers Association, John...

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  6. Taped statement of Viraj Mendis (1989)

    Genre
    Speech

    Sri Lankan (failed asylum seeker) Viraj Mendis, who has been living illegally in the UK, claims that he will be killed if he sets foot in his homeland. Before he left Pentonville Prison for Gatwick Airport...

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