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Housewife burns fur coat in protest (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a woman on her decision to burn an £800 fur coat she had just bought outside of Debenhams in protest at the treatment of animals bred and killed in the fur trade. Female speaker and...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.27: Programme 27 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 27 Programme 27 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 26 April 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

A Conversation with B. B. King (1986)

Robin Valk in conversation with the legendary blues singer. B.B. King has spent more than 40 years on the road and in the studio, during which time he has cut over 800 tracks and played with almost every...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Midland bank job cuts (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the Midland Bank’s announced 1,800 job losses in the name of community banking. Speaks to Tom Robson, regional manager at the bank; Heather Tilston of BIFU union; banking analyst Johnny Delahay.

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1980s news clips - Bhopal disaster (1989)

Genre

News report

Suresh Joshi reports on the Bhopal industrial disaster in India, in which a Union Carbide pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas killing approximately 3,800 people instantly (03/12/84)....

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Knapp rejects Railtrack cash offer (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with RMT leader Jimmy Knapp where he urges his members not to be bribed by cash offers from Railtrack to return to work. Railtrack managers in Anglia and the South-West are offering one-off...

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Foxley Wood decision overturned (1989)

Genre

Interview

Paul Rowley interviews Chris Patten, Environment Secretary, about his decision to overturn the decision of his predecessor, Nicholas Ridley, to give permission for a 4,800-house new town on the site of...

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Joan Collins wins court battle with publisher (1996)

Genre

Press conference

Actress and author Joan Collins is celebrating victory in her two-year court battle with US publishers Random House. A New York jury has ruled that the 62 year-old can keep an £800,000 advance on a...

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Joan Collins wins court battle with publisher (1996)

Genre

Press conference

Actress and author Joan Collins is celebrating victory in her two-year court battle with US publishers Random House. A New York jury has ruled that the 62 year-old can keep an £800,000 advance on a...

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First fare-paying Eurostar journey (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Jeff Collins reports from the first fare-paying journey through the Channel Tunnel on the Eurostar train service from London to Paris. All went smoothly for the 800 passengers. Includes interview with...

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