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  1. Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    A survivor of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, John Wood describes the inferno which nearly took his life. Alex Blake Milton reveals that the platform was nearly destroyed by a saboteur a year before the...

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  2. Raymond Keene on chess move map in murder case (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chess correspondent of the Times and grandmaster, Raymond Keene on being called in by police to consult on a map with chess moves on it which was found on a suspected murderer, and his belief that he has...

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  3. Piper Alpha oil rig disaster compensation talks (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Press conference

    Andy Stenton reports from Aberdeen on a fight for compensation for families of victims of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster. Lawyers representing the families have been in talks with platform owners...

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  4. Piper Alpha oil rig fire (1989)

    Genre
    Vox pop

    Relatives of men killed in the Piper Alpha oil rig fire speak emotionally about their meeting with Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson, where he said he could not do anything to bring the bodies back before the...

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  5. Piper Alpha disaster - Petrie report (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Following the Piper Alpha disaster in which an explosion on a North Sea oil platform killed 167 people, a report from the Department of Energy’s Director of Safety, Jim Petrie, has prompted different...

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  6. Piper Alpha disaster - Previous sabotage attempt (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    After the Piper Alpha disaster, owners Occidental say they did not inform the Department of Energy inspectorate of a sabotage attempt on the platform until ten months after it happened. They say they did...

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  7. Baby Alexandra Griffiths snatched (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    David Piper interviews artist John Worsley on how he drew an impression of the woman accused of snatching baby Alexandra Griffiths from St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

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  8. Salman Rushdie talks to paper about fatwa (1990)

    Genre
    News report

    David Piper reports on author Salman Rushdie talking to The Guardian newspaper about his Satanic Verses book for the first time since the fatwa was put on him a year ago over the controversial novel.

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  9. Piper Alpha disaster - Occidental compensation (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Following the explosion on the North Sea oil rig, Piper Alpha, which killed 167 men, Occidental Petroleum who own the rig and Disaster Legal who represent many of the families have agreed on an average...

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  10. Ranulph Fiennes finds lost city of Ubar (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    David Piper interviews explorer Ranulph Fiennes following the discovery of what is believed to be the lost city of Ubar buried in the sands of the Middle East. The find would corroborate the Arabian Nights...

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