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RSA lectures: Sir Brian Young on broadcasting (1980)

Genre

Speech

Lecture given by Sir Brian Young, Director-General of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), on censorship and the...

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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...

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Former President Reagan speech supporting Chinese protests (1989)

Genre

Speech

Tony Cook reports on a speech by former US President, Ronald Reagan, at the Churchill Lecture at the Guildhall in London in which he strongly supported the student protests in China and warned that once the...

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Demonstrations against Patrick Harrington (1984)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Report on students who are demonstrating against Patrick Harrington attending lectures at North London Polytechnic because they object to his National Front membership. With comment from police commander,...

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General election - Michael Foot on unemployment (1983)

Genre

News report; Speech

Labour Party leader Michael Foot, speaking in Oxford, targets Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government for the rise in unemployment. Speaking in London, Thatcher responds by saying that unemployment...

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Thatcher on Scotland; Heath on Thatcher (1988)

Genre

News report; Speech

Richard Bestic reports on a speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a Conservative Party meeting in Perth where she pledged to recapture Scottish Tory seats lost in the 1987 General Election. The...

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Our kind of town (1979)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Keith Howell presents Our Kind of Town. This week’s edition looks at three books about London and Howell interviews the authors on their stories. The books are Docklandscape, by Hilary Peters, on her city...

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Ripper Sutcliffe Shorts: a special programme (1981)

See also AV769/671/S1. Track 1- Factory worker Carol Jones was Peter Sutcliffe’s first girlfriend. The couple went out for 4 years in their teens. Carol, who still lives in Bingley, remembers a very...

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