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  1. Prime minister’s question time tackles BR and Europe (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Des Fahy reports on Prime Ministers’s Question Time, in which Margaret Thatcher criticises the national rail strikes and confronts the issue of privatisation of British Rail; and also speaks on UK...

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  2. BR runs services despite strike (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Justin Carrigan reports on the sixth national rail strike. British Rail have managed to run some services and are claiming one in four men in the south east defied the NUR by turning up for work and have...

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  3. Problem with SE train doors (1996)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    William Roncon reports that thousands of commuters are facing another nightmare journey home, after South Eastern train drivers refused to work on network trains. The move follows the discovery by engineers...

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  4. Tilbury ferry route rights row (1992)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Report on the Crown Estate telling White Horse Ferries, who took over the Tilbury to Gravesend route from Sealink last year, they can only take passengers in one direction. Includes ferry horn sound effect;...

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  5. London riverbus under threat (1992)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the future of the Chelsea to Greenwich riverbus, under threat after the collapse of Canary Wharf developer Olympia and York who subsidised the riverbus. Includes comment from Chief Executive of the...

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  6. Commuter Club meeting over London transport (1981)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Transport Secretary Norman Fowler about the issues raised following an Evening Standard Commuter Club meeting about London’s transport in which British Rail Chairman Peter Parker also took...

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  7. Power failure affects Tube (1994)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Mark Phillips reports back to the studio from Easton station as London Underground gears up for the evening rush hour following chaos this morning due to a power failure around 8am caused by the failure of...

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  8. Katherine Mansfield short stories - Marriage a la mode (1985)

    Genre
    Fiction

    Reading of Marriage a la Mode, a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. The story follows William, a man commuting home from London on the weekends. His wife Isabel has made new society friends, and this...

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  9. Crossrail shelved by MP committee (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech

    Max Cotton reports on the Government decision to shelve the Crossrail project for London after a small committee of MPs rejected the plans, and reaction to the decision. Comments from Prime Minister John...

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  10. Second 24 hour rail strike (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    John Alcock reports on how the nation fared in the second Wednesday 24 hour rail and Underground strike today over pay and bargaining conditions. Includes vox pop with Liverpool commuters; view of a...

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