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You Are Wanted on the Telephone!

Date released

23 Jun 1932

Series name

Pathe Super Gazette

Issue no

32/50

NoS ID

089966

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Sir Kingsley Wood - the Postmaster General - inaugurates intensive publicity campaign.

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Girobank: The 40th Anniversary of the People’s Bank (2008)

Subject

Economics; Politics & government; Social Studies

Tony Benn speaks about his role, as Postmaster General, in founding the National Girobank, which extended banking services to people on low incomes and revolutionised the transfer of money in Great Britain....

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Shakespeare in Love (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 127

Series

Pop Culturally Deprived

Audio podcast. Mandi Kaye and Matthew Vode discuss movies and his dislike of British cinema in general and then look at whether a screening of Shakespeare in Love broke that pattern. (Spoiler: it didn’t.)

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Death of John Stonehouse (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report; Obituary

Former Labour minister John Stonehouse has died of a suspected heart attack. Stonehouse, who had been Postmaster General in the Wilson government before his dramatic disappearance from a Florida beach,...

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General Election 1983 ROT of part of coverage - nd [1983]

General Election 1983 ROT of part of coverage - nd [1983]. See also AV769626/S1. [Box 5]

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Alpha and Omega [Part 1] (1987)

A recording of Adrian Snell’s contemporary musical with a prophetic message ‘Alpha and Omega’ at the Snape Maltings on 28th March. The recording, together with interviews and general ‘behind the scenes’...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

The News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Mr May, Postmaster Tells His Story

Date released

12 Sep 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

484

NoS ID

009204

Story no

7 / 12

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: G May, Tough Postmaster. SHOTLIST: Mr G May, Postmaster of Downe, talks for Movietone about the burglars that he held up with a .22 revolver.

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Sorting It All Out

Date released

21 Dec 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1855

NoS ID

025798

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sorting It All Out. DESCRIPTION: The sorting system at Mount Pleasant in London seems rather antiquated compared with the electronic sorting system in Nuremberg, which deals with...

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Postal Painters

Date released

25 Nov 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2060

NoS ID

027640

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Postal Painters. DESCRIPTION: The fracas of the Fivepenny post is only one of the burdens being borne by the Post Office. Many of the Staff - including the Postmaster General - escape...

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Mobile Telephone Exchange

Date released

12 Dec 1938

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

38/99

NoS ID

096614

Story no

5 / 13

Extras

1 film clip

Postmaster General inaugurates mobile exchange which could replace a damaged permanent exchange.

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