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Robin Cook on Scott Report (1996)

Genre

Interview

Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman Robin Cook has made it clear that the Opposition will push to have the Scott Report (into arms sales to Iraq) recommendations accepted. He tells parliamentary reporter...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.78: Programme 78 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 78 Programme 78 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 24 April 1988. Presented by ADAM HARDING....

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Arms to Iraq scandal (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Parliamentary reporter Robert Allen looks at the arms to Iraq scandal and the Scott inquiry set up to investigate it. The speakers include: Paul Henderson, managing director of Matrix Churchill, the company...

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Lester Piggott’s ear severed at Epsom (1981)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report from Epsom racecourse on an ear injury sustained by jockey Lester Piggott after being thrown in the stalls by his horse, Winsor Boy. Speakers include: Willie Carson; Newmarket trainer Robert...

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Plant workers’ demonstration against Leyland Daf receivership (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Commercial vehicle manufacturer Leyland Daf, which is going into receivership following the insolvency of Daf’s Dutch parent company. Scott Ellis reporting from the demonstration by plant workers in...

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Operation Christmas Cracker burglary operation (1995)

Genre

News report; Special; Interview

Robert Allen reports on Britain’s biggest ever anti-burglary police operation where thousands of people have been arrested. Around 12,000 officers from 40 police forces nationwide took part in Operation...

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General election - Ilford south campaign (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the 1983 General Election campaign in the London constituency of Ilford South. Includes interviews with Neil Thorne, Conservative MP; candidates John Hogben, Labour Party; Ralph Scott, SDP-Liberal...

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Relaxed day in Parliament (1996)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

Parliamentary correspondent Robert Allen reports on proceedings in Parliament following yesterday’s narrow vote on the Scott Report into sale of arms to Iraq, won by the government by just one vote. The...

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Hayes on Sunday (1979)

Genre

Interview; Talk show; Phone-in

Brian Hayes revisits the week’s shows and interviews with guests: Alan Sapper, General Secretary of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians, about the current ITV dispute; Peter...

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Parliamentary report: Scott Report, Northern Ireland and Sea Empress disaster (1996)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

Parliamentary correspondent Robert Allen reports from Westminster, where Tony Blair attacks John Major (both heard) during Prime Minister’s Question Time after Chancellor Kenneth Clarke admitted his...

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