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News in Colour: Union Banner Exhibition

Date released

10 Apr 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2292A

NoS ID

029886

Story no

5 / 1

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Union Banner Exhibition - News in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Banners in the TUC Demonstration March, and the Banner Bright Exhibition of Trade Union Banners at the Whitechapel Art Gallery,...

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Aa, The: Rescue or Wrong Turn (2010)

aka: Privatisation: Rescue or Wrong Turn

Subject

Business studies; Finance & Accounting

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £59.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £59.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

The AA - Britain’s so-called Fourth Emergency Service - is in turmoil after it was taken over by the new phenomenon in the City, the private equity company. The workforce has been cut back drastically,...

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Curses and Blessings in King Lear (2022 Video)

aka: "Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue": Shakespeare and Equity

Series

Shakespeare and Hebrew Wisdom Literature

Illustrated lecture by Julia Lupton on Shakespeare and Hebrew wisdom literature. She explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s King Lear parallels Jewish scripture.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online

Actors’ union Equity on the closed shop (1977)

Genre

Speech

Speech by A.G. Bracken from the actors’ union Equity, at the 1977 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on the level of unemployment in the entertainment industry. He talks about the minimum wage,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Business Programme No.4 (1988)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- The plan is to bring sattelite television channels, video-games, home shopping and much else into the homes of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Equity re-structuring row (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male spokesman (poss. Peter Plouviez) for the Equity actors union, on in-fighting over attempts to re-structure the organisation. Actress Vanessa Redgrave and her involvement...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Peter Plouviez on Equity funding of Chicago (1980)

Genre

Interview

Peter Plouviez on the Equity Theatre Emergency Fund providing finance for the musical Chicago, enabling the show at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End to run for another eleven weeks. Also an...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kathy Crosby barred by Equity (1979)

Genre

Interview

Greater London Council (GLC) Labour member Illtyd Harrington on the refusal of the actors’ union Equity to allow American actress Kathy Crosby (widow of the late singer Bing Crosby) to appear on stage in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Sarah Brightman and Equity (1987)

Genre

Interview

Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Equity’s refusal to allow Sarah Brightman to play on Broadway, in The Phantom of the Opera. They talk about how uniquely qualified she is for the role, how the problem...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Actresses earn less than actors (1992)

Genre

Interview

Actor Jill Gascoigne talks about a survey carried out by acting union, Equity, which reveals female actors are earning up to sixty per cent less than their male counterparts. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio