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Clapham rail crash (1988)

Genre

Press conference

Press conference at Downing Street featuring Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, following the Clapham Junction rail crash (12/12/88). She commends the rescue services on their efforts and gives details of her...

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Clapham rail crash (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview (from a radio car) with the general manager of British Rail’s Southern Region, Gordon Pettitt, on the Clapham Junction rail crash (12/12/88). He says he will investigate every possibility in a...

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Clapham rail crash (1988)

Genre

Interview

Lisa Hampele interviews Dr Robin Winch on the rescue effort at the Clapham Junction rail crash (12/12/88). He compares the tragedy to the Kings Cross and Moorgate underground disasters and describes the...

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Denis Healey on tax reliefs in 1978 Budget (1978)

Genre

Speech

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey on his Budget tax reliefs, which will leave the ‘average’ £75-per-week family better off. Living standards, he says, can continue to rise over the year ahead.

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Short stories (1984)

aka: First Heard Series: 12) I want to be on my own here; 13) Twist of fake; 14) Obsessed.

A series of Short Stories, from ‘First Heard’ radio programme. This CD contains the following stories: 12) I want to be on my own here; 13) Twist of fake; 14) Obsessed.

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Clapham rail crash (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

Tony Cook reports on a British Rail inquiry into the Clapham Junction rail crash (12/12/88). Includes interviews with Graham Coombs, British Rail; Ian MacGregor, British Rail.

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Christopher Soames on EEC (1975)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Sir Christopher Soames, European Commissioner, on the question of British membership of the European Economic Community prior to a UK referendum on 06/06/75.

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Channel Tunnel scrapped (1975)

Genre

Interview

Peter Allen interviews Anthony Crosland, Secretary of State for the Environment, on the Labour Government’s decision to scrap the Channel Tunnel plan announced on 20/01/75.

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Clapham rail crash - compensation for families (1988)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Press interview with Ian Walker, solicitor who represented families of those killed in the Kings Cross fire, about the inquiry into the Clapham Junction rail crash (12/12/88). He says the families of the...

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Ross McWhirter shot dead (1975)

Genre

News report

Jon Snow reports on the shooting of publisher Ross McWhirter in London (27/11/75). Police believe the killing was an IRA assassination, due to McWhirter’s provocative statements regarding Republican...

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