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BT price rises follow record profits (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the announcement of BT price rises with telephone bills for the average household increasing by £2.20 or 4.9 percent a quarter from September. The rise follows company profits of 3.1 billion...

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BT announce 16,000 job cuts (1991)

Genre

Interview

George Matheson interviews Alan Tuffin, General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers (UCW) about the decision of British Telecom to axe 16,000 jobs over the next 18 months from engineering and...

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BT charges for directory enquiries (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tim Locke reports on a decision by British Telecom to start charging for directory enquiries. Interviews with Mike Bett, BT; Sir Bryan Carsberg, Oftel.

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New BT advertising campaign (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

Lizzie Knight reports on new BT advertising campaign targeting young people, involving music of Dave Stewart; description of video; interview with Andrew Fordham, BT; Paul Lester, Melody Maker; music by Dave...

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Moseley Demonstration at Trafalgar Square

Date released

2 Dec 1943

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1034

NoS ID

063940

Extras

1 film clip

News on Screen Cinema news Online Moving image

BT computer hackers (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on computer hackers Robert Schifreen and Steve Gold breaking into the BT Prestel computer, and accessing the Duke of Edinburgh’s emails. Includes interviews with Steve Gold; David Babsky, magazine...

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Telephone numbers change (1995)

Genre

Special

Recording of the BT warning tone, voiced by Faith Hammond, played if you do not dial a phone number with the 1 added in after the 0 as the country changes over to the new telephone numbering system.

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Colin Brown on BT service levels (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Colin Brown, BT’s Director of Corporate Planning, on how they are doing all they can to provide a modern telephone service. He talks about prices, service, the modernisation programme, the...

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BT annual report shows record profits (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the results of the British Telecom annual financial report, prior to the alleged privatisation of the company, which show record profits despite the announcement of a rise in household bills....

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Uri Geller fixes watches (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Nick Wood reports from Victoria Station on a price change promotion set up by BT involving conjurer Uri Geller fixing watches. Speaks to people who have come to have clocks and watches fixed; with Geller on...

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