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CBI Conference - Proposals to lower retirement age (1981)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker attending the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Conference, on proposals to force workers to retire at 60 to help reduce the number of unemployed. He says unemployment is...

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Rhodesia talks in Gibraltar 1968 - white residents on black rule (1980)

Genre

Vox pop

Archive recording from 14/10/68 of ITN vox pop with white residents in the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury, on their opposition to black majority rule in the country, following talks between Prime Minister Ian...

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Kathy McGregor on her escape from Kuwait (1990)

Genre

Press conference

Hotel receptionist, Kathy McGregor(?) of Nottingham has arrived at Heathrow after escaping through the desert from occupied Kuwait dressed as a Bedouin woman in a 13-car convey of 50 to 60 people. She speaks...

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Foot and mouth outbreak on Isle of Wight (1981)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the outbreak of foot and mouth disease on the Isle of Wight after spreading from Brittany, with animals at 3 farms destroyed, with comparison to 1967-68 outbreak. Ministry of Agriculture chief vet...

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60 Minutes: reaction to Berkshire rates increase (1980)

60 Minutes News: Berkshire rates reaction. [Box 5]

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Margaret Thatcher on withdrawal of British troops from Lebanon (1984)

Genre

Parliamentary debate

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes a statement in the House of Commons regarding the withdrawal of British troops from Lebanon. Their headquarters are in Hadass, so they are unable to help British...

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Tony Gould on farmworkers’ pay claim (1977)

Genre

Interview

Tony Gould of the Farmworkers Union on submitting a £60 per week minimum wage pay claim and of a possible one day work stoppage in support of the claim. Includes an interview with Robert and Elaine Gould...

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Dave Bowman on NUR wage demands (1977)

Genre

Interview

Peter Allen interviews Dave Bowman of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) on the union’s 60 percent wage demand. Bowman is critical of Chancellor Denis Healey’s severe wage restrictions and says wages...

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Children hired father’s killer (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report

A 17 year-old boy from the United States who paid a 19 year-old man to murder his father is to be tried as an adult. Unidentified male American speaker (identified as Bob ?) describes how the 17 year-old and...

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Jack Jones on retirement and pensions (1979)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a speech by former TGWU union leader Jack Jones at the union conference, with excerpts in which he pushes for the Government to raise the rate of pensions, and lower the retirement age to 60 for...

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