Results

Jack Straw elected to shadow cabinet (1987)

Genre

Interview

Jack Straw on his election to the new Labour shadow cabinet under Neil Kinnock. On the left and right divisions that split the party having now gone, and hiis regret over the departure of Peter Shore....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory Report: feature for Radio Victory’s Enable the Disabled Week, part of the International Year of the Disabled (1981)

A Victory Report on IYDP [nable the Disabled Week]. Track 1- Interview with PAT SAUNDERS, tetraplegic, previously led very active life involved in sport, work-flying and navy. Description of how be became...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

A Straw in the wind (1984)

A documentary focussing on controversies surrounding miscarriages of justice in English legal history, which led to the abolition of the death penalty.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Woodcock report into Whitemoor breakout - Jack Straw’s Commons statement (1994)

Genre

Parliamentary debate; Speech

House of Commons statement by Labour Party home affairs spokesman, Jack Straw, responding to a speech by Home Secretary, Michael Howard, following a report by Sir John Woodcock into the escape in 09/94 by...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jack Straw in asylum bill debate (1995)

Genre

Speech

Commons speech by Labour Party home affairs spokesman Jack Straw condemning Home Secretary Michael Howard for pandering to the political partisan interest of Conservative Central Office in the Asylum Bill,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jack Straw on effects of glue sniffing (1980)

Genre

Interview

Labour MP for Blackburn, Jack Straw on the increasing problem of solvent abuse and glue sniffing amongst adolescents in the UK. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Tommy Boyd?).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jack Straw on GLC abolition (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour MP Jack Straw on the party’s opposition to the abolition of the Greater London Council (GLC) and planned fight against the Parliamentary bill. Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sale of council houses (1979)

Genre

Interview

Jack Straw, Labour MP, demands an inquiry into the Conservative Government plans to sell off council housing.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

General election - Jack Straw on Labour policies (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Jack Straw MP, on the Labour Party’s employment policy and a new strategic authority for London following the abolition of the GLC; also criticises proposed poll tax (community charge)....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jack Straw on performance-related pay for teachers (1991)

Genre

Interview

Shadow Education Secretary, Jack Straw attacks the Government’s plans for performance-related pay increases for teachers as a gimmick. He says the proposals are nonsense, as teachers cannot be compared on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio