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Liz Symons on Derek Lewis (1995)

Genre

News report; Speech

Speech by Liz Symons, leader of the First Division Association, on Derek Lewis’s dismissal as Head of the Prison Service following breakouts at Parkhurst and Whitemoor prisons on the Isle of Wight; Derek...

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Celebrity interview (1987)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Derek Guyler

An interview with the veteran actor Derek Guyler.

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No pardon for Derek Bentley (1992)

Genre

Press conference

Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke rejects calls for a posthumous pardon for Derek Bentley, saying that the jury had evidence to support the conviction. Bentley was hanged forty years ago for murdering a police...

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Derek Hatton on resignation (1986)

Genre

Interview

Derek Hatton on his decision to resign as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council. He says most local Labour members wish him to stay on but Neil Kinnock is against him. Male interviewer not identified.

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Celebrity interview (1987)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Derek Jacobi

An interview with the actor Derek Jacobi in front an audience at The Barbican Centre.

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Derek Lewis on sacking (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Interview with former Head of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, who says he refused to resign, as he didn’t believe he should have been made a scapegoat, following the breakout from Parkhurst and Whitemoor...

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Derek Humphry on assisted suicide (1981)

Genre

Interview

Director of EXIT, Derek Humphry, talks about the case of Nicholas Reed, who was found guilty of helping people to commit suicide, and implications of the verdict. Female interviewer not identified.

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Dentist’s massive divorce settlement (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with retired dentist, Derek Allen, who has been ordered to pay 220,000 pounds to his wife, Mary, as part of a divorce settlement.

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Derek Bentley refused a pardon (1992)

Genre

Press conference

Derek Bentley’s sister, Iris, vows to continue the fight to clear his name after Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke rejected calls for a posthumous pardon. Bentley was hanged in 1953 for murdering a police...

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Derek Robinson on dismissal from British Leyland (1980)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Press interview with Derek Robinson, union shop steward at the British Leyland Longbridge plant in Birmingham, after the workforce refused to take strike action to force his reinstatement following his...

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