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Howard League seminar (1983)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Report on the first of a series of seminars at King’s College, Cambridge organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform to examine the future of the criminal justice system in Britain. Includes speeches...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.25: Programme 25 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 25 Programme 25 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 12 April 1987. Presented by GUY HORNSBY. TRACK...

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Michael Portillo gaffe (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

David Addis analyses the fallout after remarks made by Michael Portillo, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, that many people overseas behave dishonestly in business and education. Portillo was addressing...

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Mayor of Washington charged and steps down (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech

Washington correspondent Nick Peters reports on Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, who is currently on trial on drugs and perjury charges having been addicted to alcohol and cocaine. Barry will not be...

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Health and safety at work - RSI (1991)

Genre

Interview; Music

Interview with Dr Howard Bird, a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds, who claims that modern life is causing more injuries than ever. He discusses musicians, factories that have not been modernised,...

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The night is young (1988)

Genre

Interview

Gill Pyrah interviews actress and director Sheila Hancock on The Night is Young programme. On her role in Howard Brenton’s play, Greenland, which will open at the Royal Court and the play itself, set in a...

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Boot camps for young offenders (1995)

Genre

Interview

The UK Home Secretary, Michael Howard, is considering boot camp institutions for hooligans in the UK. Professor Walter Dickie of the University of Wisconsin has been studying the American experience. He...

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Superbug outbreak (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

David Kermode reports on the Group A Streptococcal superbug outbreak which has spread from Gloucestershire to other parts of the UK, killing people along the way. Includes interviews with Sally Howard,...

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Guinness fraud appeal rejected (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Brian Ging reports on a rejection by Lord Chief Justice Taylor at the Courts of Appeal in London regarding the four businessmen involved in the Guinness fraud case. Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, Jack...

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