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NewsRevue (1984)

Genre

Special

NewsRevue. An episode of the topical satirical comedy song and sketch show. Individuals sent up include Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine; Sarah Tisdall, FCO clerical officer who leaked documents; Andrew...

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Cancer scandal in Birmingham hospital (1993)

Genre

Interview

Paul Rowley interviews Dr Kenneth Calman, Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health, about the cancer scandal of wrongful diagnoses in Birmingham’s Royal Orthopaedic Hospital with 42 people either...

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60 Minutes: report on housing with MPs Michael Heseltine and David Orton (1980)

60 Minutes: report on housing with MPs Michael Heseltine and David Orton. They talk about cutting budget on housing programme by the Government. [Box 5]

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Michael Rogan on Ronald Reagan’s acting habit (1986)

Genre

News report; Interview

Michael Rogan has presented a paper entitled, Ronald Reagan: The Movie to the American Political Science Association. Rogan claims that Reagan confuses movies with real life. He says that when the President...

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Police drugs raid in Torquay (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Around 60 policemen and custom officers have been involved in a dramatic drugs swoop at Anstey’s Cove in Torquay which netted cannabis worth five million pounds. Detective Superintendent Don Taylor(?) of...

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Great Ormond Street Hospital to lose day care unit (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Just a week after the Great Ormond Street appeal reached its 42 million-pound target, the world famous hospital has been told that its day care unit treating sexually abused children is to be closed in a...

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Record lottery win - winner revealed by papers (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report

Olivia MacLeod reports on the decision of two Sunday newspapers to name the man who won nearly eighteen million pounds in last week’s National Lottery. The News of the World and Yorkshire on Sunday are not...

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60 Minutes ROT reports from Reading Festival (1979)

60 Minutes ROT reports from Reading Rock Festival 1979 - Special edition: interviews with the following persons: first group on stage: Bite the Pillow; John Peel; Chief Sound Engineer; Organiser Harold...

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Operation Cheater (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Fraud squad officers investigating allegations of corrupt land deals involving Liverpool City Council between 1985 and now have descended on 60 premises, arresting 22 people including former deputy council...

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Kurd bombers receive jail sentences (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Legal affairs correspondent Tim Crook reports on an Old Bailey judge imposing jail terms totalling 42 years on 3 Kurdish men for petrol bomb attacks on Turkish targets in London in 11/93. Cafer Kovaycin and...

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