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Tyneside riots (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Sir Stanley Bailey on the recent riots in North Shields, and the causes of the violence. Female interviewer not identified. Originally on Metro Radio.

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Short story (1985)

aka: Alex

Written by James Kelly of Sunderland who won the 1984 Metro Radio writing competition. The story relates the experience of the author while he was working in California, and brings alive the remarkable...

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Jack Cunningham on water privatization (1989)

Genre

Interview

The Government’s new multi million pound advertising campaign to sell off shares in the water industry has come under fire from Labour’s environment spokesman. Dr Jack Cunningham says the project is...

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Network (1981)

Genre

Documentary

Metro Radio Manchester presents The Hartley Colliery Disaster, a look back at the 1862 mining disaster at Hartley Colliery, Northumberland in which over 200 miners died.

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Commons rejects ordination of divorcees (1989)

Genre

Interview

Bishop of Durham, David Edward Jenkins? interviewed about the House of Commons rejection of Church of England General Synod measures to allow divorcees to be ordained as clergy and on the churches role in...

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Girl murdered in Sunderland (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Report on the last movements of 7-year-old Nicki Allen who was kidnapped and battered to death in Sunderland. With Detective Superintendent of Tyne and Weir Police George Sinclair on the investigation; local...

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Blair on jobless figures (1992)

Genre

Interview

Mary Wimpress interviews Labour Party employment spokesman, Tony Blair, about the latest unemployment figures which show a dramatic slow-down in the number of people who are out of work. Blair says it’s...

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Tyneside vicar rejects Carey’s riot theory (1991)

Genre

Interview

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, has claimed that social deprivation was a cause of rioting in North East England. The Reverend George Curry from Elswick, Tyne and Wear disagrees with him,...

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Ridley attacks Green Party (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Catherine Adams reports on the Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley addressing a conference of municipal authorities in Newcastle where he made a scathing attack on the Green Party, accusing it of...

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NUR to strike (1989)

Genre

Speech

The NUR union’s leader Jimmy Knapp is forecasting strong and solid support for the forthcoming 24 hour rail strikes over pay and bargaining conditions. Opening the NUR’s annual conference in...

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