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EEC farming policy (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview on changes to farming policy in the EEC, says the proposals remain essentially the same despite all the discussions and Britain is stronger for being a member of the EEC. Male interviewer and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Portsea Island Discs: David Whiting, journalist, engineer and animal welfare worker (1984)

This week, Andy Ferriss talks to David Whiting. He is the driving force behind compassionate world farming and a journalist, an aero space and weapon development engineer, an animal spy, and the stepson of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Three features from the National Garden Festival: farm, musicians and dragon (1986)

aka: National Garden Festival 1986

A series of interviews with the people responsible for organising the National Garden Festival. The programme looks at different aspects of the preparations including farming, booking musicians to play...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Industrial strikes affect farms (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with President of the National Farming Union (NFU), Richard Butler, about the effect on farming, and in particular on livestock, of a series of UK industrial disputes in 1979. Male interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British food and farming festival (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

The first British food and farming festival will be held in Hyde Park in London, and will exhibit the best of British farming, from cattle and livestock, to lumberjacking and sheepdog trials. John...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

NFU picket (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Lizzie Knight reports on a picket by animal rights activists outside the National Farmers Union Annual Conference in West London; interviews with Peter Stevenson, Compassion in World Farming; Ben Gill, NFU;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Chernobyl effects on Welsh farmers (1987)

Genre

Interview

Welsh farmer John Hewson(?) on the lingering effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident (26/04/86) on the farming industry. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Duke on rural poverty (1992)

Genre

Interview

Stephanie West interviews Britain’s richest man, the Duke of Westminster (Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor), who says people in rural areas are being driven to suicide because of Government neglect. The...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prince Charles on farming (1976)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) at a National Union of Farmers (NFU) dinner on his recent time as a captain of a ship, the effect the land has on the country and the effects that farmers have to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Changes to EC agricultural policy (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview on changes in agricultural policy, in particular set-aside scheme and countryside stewardship scheme being discussed by the EC, and the cut in farming subsidies. Male speaker and interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio