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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Messages Home (Third Series)

Date released

21 Feb 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

768

NoS ID

013016

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Messages Home (Third Series). DESCRIPTION: Private Chambers, Private Gallagher and Private Paddy McNight send messages home via Movietone. SHOTLIST: Cut story - GV. Gun site, crew...

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Oldest Geordie, The: Environmental History of the River Tyne (2015)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; History

Historian Leona Skelton, a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Bristol, presents this look at the extent to which people have shaped the River Tyne. Skelton’s project challenges us to see...

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Lockerbie disaster inquiry (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Havovi Todd reports on the start of a three-month judicial inquiry into the Lockerbie disaster, in which 270 people were killed when a Pan Am plane crashed into the Scottish town on 21 December 1988....

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Land battle with Iraq (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report about artillery shells being fired into Iraq from the Saudi Arabian border during the Gulf War prior to troops being sent in. With comment from Major Steve Young, second in command of the second field...

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Assault victim on voice of attacker (1980)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified female attack victim (poss. Maureen Long) on receiving a threatening phone call from her assailant. Speaker may be referring to the Yorkshire Ripper; she says her caller did not have a Geordie...

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Olive Smelt on surviving attack by Yorkshire Ripper (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Olive Smelt, who survived an attack by the Yorkshire Ripper in 1975. She says she also received a threatening phone call from someone claiming to be named Jack. She says the man who attacked...

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Kiddar’s luck (1982)

Genre

Biography; Fiction; Serial

Kiddar’s Luck, episode 7. Originally published in 1951, Common’s best-known book, the autobiographical Kiddar’s Luck, in which he vividly describes his childhood on the streets of Edwardian Tyneside,...

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James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

aka: James May’s 20th Century

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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