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  1. Bilsthorpe Colliery disaster possible causes (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Ian Booth reports from the colliery on the Bilsthorpe Colliery disaster in Nottinghamshire which killed 3 and UDM spokesman Mick Stevens talks about what may have caused the disaster.

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  2. Heseltine gives reasons for coal mine closures (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine, on the economic reasons in electricity supply for the recent proposals to close 31 coal mines and the redundancy payments scheme. Peter...

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  3. Robin Cook on pit closures (1994)

    Genre
    Interview

    Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Robin Cook condemns the closure of a further three coal mines. He says the pits closed this week are profitable but the Government have created a market that does not...

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  4. Bilsthorpe Colliery collapse (1994)

    Genre
    Interview

    Malcolm Brown interviews Sir Bernard Crossland, author of an independent report into the collapse at the Bilsthorpe Colliery in Nottinghamshire on 18/08/93 where three miners were killed. He says the...

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  5. Network (1982)

    Genre
    Fiction

    The Free Mine, a short story written by Mabel Beech and read by Sheila Hanman(?), on the free miners of the Royal Forest of Dean. An LBC Network programme, from Severn Sound, Gloucester. Male announcer not...

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  6. Mining tragedy (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Sir Derk Ezra, Chairman of the National Coal Board, talks about the recent mining accident [at Golborne Colliery, Lancashire] in which a build-up of methane gas was exposed to a spark, causing an explosion....

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  7. Coal industry safety changes opposed (1993)

    Genre
    Interview

    Paul Rowley interviews Peter McNestry, General Secretary of the pit union NACODS, about the Government’s plans to change responsibility for safety regulations in Britain’s mines without a parliamentary...

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  8. Gold mine disaster (1987)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on an explosion at the St Helena gold mine in South Africa with five miners found alive but more still trapped and hope of finding them alive running out. Includes an interview with Jean LeJeure(?), a...

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  9. Zairean president Mobutu visits Paris (1978)

    Genre
    News report

    Paul Taylor reports on trip to Paris by President Mobutu of Zaire to thank the French for intervention by paratroopers in areas where rebels had taken over and were killing Europeans, also to ask for foreign...

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  10. Sir Geoffrey Howe on mines in the Persian Gulf (1987)

    Genre
    Speech

    In 2 parts. British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, speaks to the UN assembly about Iran, with reference to the recent laying of mines by Iranian troops in the Persian Gulf, the closure of the Iranian...

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