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Whitechapel bell foundry (1990)

Genre

Interview

Kerry Thomas tours Whitechapel Bell Foundry and asks Richard Brewis about making church bells, how they are made in a traditional method, the life of a bell and his favourite bells.Tuner Arthur Cuthbert...

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Neil Kinnock on miners strike support (1984)

Genre

Interview

Peter Allen interviews Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the miners’ strike, trade unions and the so-called Big Bang Theory which could see the strikes come to a head with support from other unions.

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Geoffrey Howe challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to reduce weapons (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech

Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe has challenged Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to scrap huge numbers of tanks, big guns and heavy armour. Speaking in Vienna on the eve of East-West talks on cutting...

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Neil Kinnock criticises Thatcher at Welsh Labour conference (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech

Labour leader Neil Kinnock speaking in Swansea, at the Welsh Labour Party conference. He branded Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a twister and said that the Tory Government as a whole operates a Big Lie...

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The Independent radio guide to the ‘Big Bang’. (1986)

A programme giving information about the trading floor, investments, brokers, stock exchange, shares, etc. A guide for investors.

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London’s hottest day for nearly eighty years (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Havovi Todd reports on temperatures rising up to 97 degrees Fahrenheit (or 36 Centigrade) in London. Speaking are Dave Hunting, managing director of a fan company; Arik(?) Sudman, psychologist; Philip Eden,...

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Sonny Ramphal on Commonwealth Games (1986)

Genre

Interview

Shridath (or Sonny) Ramphal, Commonwealth Secretary-General on whether the Commonwealth Games can be saved. He talks about the protest the nations are making, the possibility of compromise, how Britain will...

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Drug gangs move into rural US states (1989)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

Paul Woodley reports on a new survey conducted by the US government which shows that America is losing the war against drugs war. The drugs scourge, as President George Bush describes it, has spread out of...

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Bank workers’ union boss on work-to-rule over pay offer (1987)

Genre

Interview

Staff at the big four banks begin work-to-rule on pay settlement. The General Secretary of a banking and insurance workers’ union (poss. the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union) says the pay offer is...

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Inner city deprivation (1995)

Genre

Interview

Dr Martin Frost of King’s College, London on inner city deprivation- schemes to tackle it, history and future of problems. He says the Urban Development Corporations set up by former PM Margaret Thatcher...

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