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Plans for social services budget (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Social Services Secretary David Ennals on his plans for the money allocated to health services in the Budget including getting new hospitals operational, new kidney dialysis machines and...

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Arthur Matthews, ex-butler on Idi Amin (1977)

Genre

Interview

Part of an interview by Peter Sharp with Arthur Matthews, former butler of Ugandan President, Idi Amin. He speaks about Amin’s personality and habits and his own fear of being sent to prison and mixed...

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Prince Charles on schizophrenia (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Report on Prince Charles, Prince of Wales calling for help for schizophrenia sufferers in a speech to an unknown audience. Includes excerpt of speech; reaction from agony aunt Claire Rayner; speech by...

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Tony Smythe on Normansfield Hospital inquiry (1978)

Genre

Interview

Tony Smythe of MIND on the low standards of British psychiatric hospitals. Smthye calls for the Government to invest more money in the area and for the public to have a greater awareness of the problems. The...

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Disability in Shakespeare’s England (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 268

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Jeffrey R. Wilson, author of Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity:...

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London mental health services survey (1995)

Genre

Interview

Director of Research at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Dr Paul Elliott on his survey into twelve mental health services in London, which found high occupancy levels and a high number of violent...

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Raymond Antebi on Glasgow rape case report (1982)

Genre

Interview

Dr Raymond Antebi, psychiatrist, on his report relating to a Glasgow rape case, in which he suggested that the victim should not appear in court due to the state of her mental health. Female interviewer not...

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Bulimia nervosa (1985)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Documentary on the eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, its effects on sufferers, and available treatments. Includes contributions by unnamed sufferers; Dr Hubert Lacey, Consultant Psychiatrist at St George’s...

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Eric Moonman on Normansfield psychiatric hospital (1978)

Genre

Interview

Labour MP Eric Moonman discusses details of a report outlining poor conditions at Normansfield psychiatric hospital. Moonman says there is a widespread problem with such hospitals in Britain and that the...

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Armed forces - Conditions in Northern Ireland (1979)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker (poss. Northern Ireland Secretary, Roy Mason) on conditions facing British armed forces in Northern Ireland, following an incident involving a British soldier who was returned to...

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