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Hong Kong Satellite Dish

Date released

Apr 1970

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

95

NoS ID

327968

Story no

1 / 6

COI synopsis: Hong Kong’s two-and-a-half million pound Cable and Wireless station, which provides a valuable new link in world telecommunication traffic by satellite.

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Telepresence: A Video Interview with Claus Knudsen (2006)

Subject

Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Technology

Distribution

CD-ROM

Rachel Hunter talks to Claus Knudsen about his research into video and telepresence, the idea of using technology to create the presence of someone who is not actually there.Recorded in Lillehammer, Norway,...

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Cable & Wireless profits (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on Cable and Wireless doubling its pre-tax profits for 1976-77 to a record £58.2 million (12/10/77); Therese Birch interviews Peter McCunn, Chief Executive.

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Decision Makers: telecommunications [IRN Political Unit production] - nd [1975-1986]

Decision Makers: telecommunications [IRN Political Unit production]. Interviews with manager of British Telecom and members of the government to announce new decisions making for telecommunications area....

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Lift engineers strike (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Alfred McBrowse, the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (EETPU) official responsible for the liftmen, on the possible end of lift engineers’ strike after workers in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Telecommunications dispute over (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Terry Deagan, Secretary of Society of Civil and Public Servants, on decision of the CPSA on deciding to return to work after the telecommunication workers’ dispute. Male interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Nuclear energy - Frank Chapple view (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Interview with Frank Chapple, Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (EETPU), about the need for increasing nuclear energy within the UK. Interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White?).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Phone tapping warrants legislation (1980)

Genre

Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

Dave Loyn reports on controversial Government legislation making it easier for phone tapping warrants to be issued in the UK. Speaking are: Home Secretary William (Willie) Whitelaw; Robin Cook, Labour MP;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mobile Phones - Safe? (2003)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Free streamed access on Vega website Online, 35 min.

An early pilot programme for the series THE NEXT BIG THING. The panel, chaired by Peter Evans and consisting of Professor Peter Excell (University of Bradford), Dr Camelia Gabriel (Microwave Consultants...

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Galileo: Europe Shows the Way (2005)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

CD-ROM (PC Version, 10 minutes), free (Tren)

The deployment phase for GALILEO, the European programme of civil radio-navigation by satellite will begin in 2006. GALILEO is compatible and interoperable with the American GPS but will furnish a more...

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