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Killer Waldron an Arab political hit man? (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the claims by convicted murderer Ronald Waldron, who also burned down a Jewish synagogue in Toxteth in 1979, that he was a political hit man for Arab terrorists. Includes interviews with...

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Auberon Waugh claims semtex benign invention (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on remarks in his right wing magazine column by journalist and author Auberon Waugh, saying Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher should retire and that semtex is a benign invention. Follows bombing of the...

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Guardian journalist resigns over KGB allegations (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Chapman reports on a row which has erupted over allegations that the Guardian newspaper’s literary editor was a KGB agent during the Cold War. Richard Gott has resigned over today’s claims in the...

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Celebrity interview (1986)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with John Mortimer

John Mortimer - When asked whether he missed being a barrister he replied in the negative: ‘I wake up every morning thinking, ‘Thank God I don’t have to go to that Old Bailey and pretend to be respectful...

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Network - Field and Hedgerow (1984)

Genre

Feature

Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies, adapted for radio and read by Sean Street. Richard Jefferies was a Victorian journalist, and author of three books. His last essays were...

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Crime rate rise in London (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on reaction to the publication of the new official crime figures released which show an eight percent rise in London. Speaking are: Police Federation Chairman Jim Jardine; GLC Police Committee...

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Our kind of town (1979)

Genre

Interview

Our Kind of Town. Keith Howell interviews author and science journalist Peter Laurie on his revised and updated book, Beneath the City Streets, which considers the effects of a nuclear attack on London, the...

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Decision makers (1985)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Decision Makers, presented by Peter Spencer. On the phenomenon of the professional parliamentary lobbyist, and how abuse of the lobbying system might be prevented. With contributions from Ian Greer, head of...

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Robert Maxwell death (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Woodley reports from the United States on American reaction to the news that newspaper proprietor and owner of the New York Daily News, Robert Maxwell has died after falling from his yacht off the coast...

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Documentary on the term Yuppie - Part two (1986)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Second part of a documentary on the term, Yuppie. Includes cultural analysis of the term, analysis of yuppies’ wavering political stance, analysis of their consumer habits, anaysis of their diet, an...

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