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Survey claims economic recession (1990)

Genre

Interview

Britain is in deep recession, according to a survey of 6,000 firms by the British Chambers of Commerce. The survey backs claims of a recession by many industrialists and city economists but the Government...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Business Programme No. 107 (1990)

The Business Programme No.107, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. TRACK 1- IBM UK’s 1200 jobs shake-up plans. Interview with Sir Leonard Peach, Director of Personnel and Corporate...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Channel tunnel to go ahead - Dover Chamber of Commerce view (1986)

Genre

Interview

President of the Dover Chamber of Commerce, Alan(?) Stibbe(?) forecasts a total collapse of the local economy following the announcement that a Channel tunnel will be constructed by winning bidder Channel...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Chancellor Howe on economic recovery (1982)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a speech by Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (27/04/82) on the current financial outlook. Includes speech extract. Male reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Charles Price on US-Soviet relations (1984)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a speech given by the US Ambassador to London, Charles Price, to the American Chamber of Commerce in London. The Ambassador said Europeans and Americans were still friends but there were...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

White collar workers training scheme (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a representative for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) about a shortage of skilled employees in London firms. The interview coincides with the launch of a new training scheme...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Falklands war - Argentine views on invasion (1982)

Genre

Interview

Telephone interview with Ronald Briant, manager of the British Chamber of Commerce in Argentina, on the attitude of the general public in Buenos Aires to their country’s current occupation of the Falkland...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

5500 businesses go bankrupt this quarter (1991)

Genre

Interview

James Bays interviews Ron Taylor, of the Association of the British Chambers of Commerce (ABCC), following the announcement that 5,500 businesses went bankrupt in the three months to 06/91. Taylor says the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Thatcher in Birmingham on economy and wages (1980)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 21/04/80 at a meeting of the Birmingham Chamber of Industry and Commerce at the Metropole Hotel in Birmingham. She defends the Government’s monetarist economic...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Investors in collapsed bank offered little compensation (1992)

Genre

Interview

Paul Rowley interviews Labour MP Keith Vaz, about the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Investors have been offered compensation of thirty pence in the pound which the UK High...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio