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Travellers to be moved on from New Forest (1986)

Genre

Interview

Report on the prospect of the so-called hippy convoy being moved on from the New Forest. One of its members, Jim, describes the way of life he leads, and explains his philosophy. Female interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

DHSS Nomads (1985)

This is the story of some of the young people under 26 who, because of the new DHSS rules, are being forced to roam the country from town to town. Otherwise they stay put where they are on less than £26 a...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

New Travellers in the New Forest (1986)

Genre

Interview

Interview with members the so-called hippy convoy, in the New Forest. Two(?) men discuss money and employment with an unidentified male interviewer. One man describes social security payments as Prime...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Traveller convoy stops at Corfe Castle (1986)

Genre

News report

Report on a convoy of Travellers (referred to in the clip as hippies) currently stopped at Corfe Castle, Dorset, before being moved on. The movement of the Travellers, whose vehicles are mostly very old, has...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Travellers moved on from New Forest (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Report from the New Forest, Hampshire, where police have moved on a group of so-called hippies. An unidentified Traveller woman gives her reaction; all her belongings have been impounded, along with her...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Druids lose Stonehenge rights (1986)

Genre

Interview

Report on Druids losing their High Court appeal for permission to celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge. They intend to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights. Chief Secular Arch Druid,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Convoy Travellers arrested in Hampshire (1986)

Genre

Interview

John Duke, Chief Constable of Hampshire Police, discusses the arrest of some members of the so-called hippy convoy (for failing to comply with a removal order?). He claims that there was a violent,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New Age Travellers fail to breach Operation Solstice (1992)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Robin Hague reports on a major police operation, codenamed Operation Solstice, in Wiltshire, enforcing a four-mile exclusion zone around Stonehenge, to prevent New Age Travellers from celebrating the Summer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Travellers stop in the New Forest (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Members of a so-called hippy convoy which has stopped in the New Forest are discussing what will happen when the Police try to move them on. The Travellers claim they cannot move on, because their vehicles...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio