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Twenty Five Years Ago

Date released

6 Nov 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1692

NoS ID

024349

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Twenty Five Years Ago. DESCRIPTION: The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the BBC Television Service, the first in the world. And Movietone, by the way, was first to supply the...

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Panorama Special: Truth About Adoption, The (2011)

Subject

Social welfare

Adoption is now high on the political agenda as the best option for the 65,000 children in care. But, with less than 5% actually placed for adoption, children must wait an average two years and seven months...

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Do Terrorists Have a Problem with Shakespeare? (2018 Radio)

Series

Sunday Feature

Producer

Sara Jane Hall

Radio broadcast. This edition of Sunday Feature is made of two items - the first is ‘Is it wrong to have children? and the second is ‘Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare? in which Dr Islam...

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Margaret Thatcher on Bosnian crisis (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Two linked clips featuring former UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher as she denounces the European community as an accomplice to massacre following the crisis in Bosnia. In two live interviews, she says...

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Matthews Interview: Michael Blackstad, Director of Programming for TVS (1981)

Mike Matthews talks to Michael Blakstad, Director of Programmes at TVS. He was born in Penang, Malaya, in 1940 and was educated first in Australia and then in England. He won a Classical Scholarship to...

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World War II-children evacuated (1989)

Genre

News report

Archive broadcast from Waterloo Station at the beginning of World War Two reporting on the evacuation of children from London. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of...

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World War II-children evacuated (1989)

Genre

News report

Archive broadcast from Waterloo Station at the beginning of World War Two reporting on the evacuation of children from London. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of...

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Martin Webster on National Front and immigration (1980)

Genre

Interview

National Front spokesman Martin Webster on his party’s view on immigration. Female interviewer not identified (poss. Sue Lawley for the BBC?). In two parts, divided by break in audio.

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Major calls for Conservative unity (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Jeff Collins reports on Prime Minister John Major calling for unity in the Conservative Party as the election must be held soon. Two MPs have recently defected from the Party, further reducing their majority...

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Iranian Embassy siege - Sim Harris on rescue operation (1980)

Genre

Press conference

Press interview with Sim Harris, BBC cameraman (sound man?), about the rescue operation by the SAS in the Iranian Embassy siege, in which he was being held hostage. In two parts, divided by break in audio.

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