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Miners strike - Kinnock on picket line (1985)

Genre

Interview

Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock comments after standing on a picket line for first time during the miners’ dispute on his visit and prospects of an end to the strike. Male interviewer not identified

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Southampton Docks History (1989)

5 tapes 1 CD, transmitted in 4 days: from 1 to 4th of August 1989. Short features presented by Sarah Shepherd, with interviews. First day: 01-08-1989 - Track 1 [Tape 1 Band 1]: History of Southampton and...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Alan Clark on strike legislation (1984)

Genre

Interview

Conservative MP Alan Clark on new legislation which will make it illegal for trade unions to strike without first holding a ballot. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Steel strike - First day of dispute (1980)

Genre

Interview

Bill Sirs, General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), on levels of support at the start of the steel strike. Male reporter not identified (poss. Peter Deeley?).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Miners strike - Funeral of David Jones, first miner to die on picket lines (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the funeral of 23 year-old David Jones, the first miner to die on the picket lines in 1984. With comment from Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers; Jack Taylor, leader of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maudsley nurses on strike (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Bruce Pavey interviews nurses at the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, where staff have become the first in London to go on strike. Members of the health union COHSE have started a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Conservative conference - First day (1985)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool including new Party Chairman Norman Tebbit speaking one year on from the IRA bombing in Brighton. Includes extracts from Tebbit’s...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

House of Lords televised (1985)

Genre

Interview

Labour MP Tony Benn gives his opinion on the first day’s television transmission from the House of the Lords as a six month experiment, and its discussion of the miners’ stike. Benn criticises the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Alan Tuffin on Post Office strike (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with leader of the Union of Communication Workers, Alan Tuffin, on a national strike by Post Office workers – the first in seventeen years. The dispute centres on a bonus payment to new...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Miners strike - Kinnock and McGahey attack Thatcher (1985)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock attacking Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over her handling of the miners strike at a rally for first anniversary of banning of GCHQ employers from trade union...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio