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Chiswick womens aid hostel (1978)

Genre

Interview

A spokeswoman for the Chiswick Women’s Aid group on the council voting against starting a hostel for women and on the suggestion that an increase in the flood of women to Chiswick may have affected the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bailiffs - nd [1983-1984]

A report about the eviction order to remove the women from Peace Camp at Greenham Common. A representative of the women’s Peace demonstration makes a speech and she says a group of women went to Court....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Holloway: Britain’s biggest women’s prison (1985)

This feature investigates recent reports of horrifying self-mutilation at Britain’s biggest women’s prison, Holloway. Tales have emerged of treatment which has led to women slashing their arms and breasts...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Women’s peace rally in Belfast (1976)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Vivian White reports from the first Women’s Peace Rally in Belfast. He estimates that 15-20,000 Catholic and Protestant women and their families have taken part, and speaks to some of them, as well as to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Angela Rumbold on women in employment (1991)

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Interview

Home Office Minister, Angela Rumbold, Chairperson of the Ministerial Group on Women’s Issues, on the issues involved in women finding work, such as childcare, and how to cope with motherhood and a career....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Betty Schiess on women bishops (1988)

Genre

Interview

Lawrence Spicer interviews the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess on women priests and bishops with reference to a meeting by Anglican Churches in Canterbury. Schiess talks of the Americans’ acceptance and the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

TUC conference-women in unions and work (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview at the TUC conference in Blackpool about seats available for women in the TUC General Council and why more women aren’t union leaders; improving working conditions for women including childcare...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Women’s views on new Bishop of London (1995)

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Interview

The appointment of Richard Chartres as the new Bishop of London has received a mixed reaction. Christina Rees from the Ministry of Women (formerly the Movement for the Ordination of Women) is asked by...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

United Nations Women Conference (1995)

Genre

Interview

The United Nations fourth women’s conference is due to start in Beijing, but thousands of delegates are already in the city attending another women’s meeting there. Tom Netter, an organiser, is...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ordination of women (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Reverend Alfred Willetts on his support for ordination of women, allowing them to celebrate communion even if ordained elsewhere despite a Church of England General Synod decision against...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio