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Wendy Savage’s suspension as obstetrician upheld (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the decision of the High Court in London to uphold the suspension of obstetrician Wendy Savage by Tower Hamlets health authority, over allegations of incompetence on her methods of natural...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Consultant Joseph Jordan cleared of negligence (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview about a court judgement where consultant obstetrician Joseph Jordan was cleared of negligence in attending Eileen Whitehouse, when she gave birth at Birmingham Maternity Hospital. Her son, Stuart...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Birth of Princess Eugenie (1990)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Vox pop

Peter Russell reports on the birth of the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson’s second daughter by caesarean section and speculation on the name. Includes the announcement of the birth from the Portland...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Liver transplant for Aisling Barnett (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Nicky Broyd reports on the case of Aisling Barnett from Hackney who has undergone a liver transplant operation at London’s King’s College Hospital. She suffered acute liver failure just five weeks after...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Baby ordered into care prior to birth is stillborn (1987)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Report on the baby of Lily and Philip Raynor, ordered into care before it was born, being born dead. Includes statement by Peter Clatworthy who was organising an appeal fund; Dr Michael Maresh, obstetrician...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

59-year-old gives birth to twins (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on a 59-year-old woman giving birth to healthy twins on Christmas Day following fertility treatment in Italy after she was refused treatment in the UK on ethical grounds. Speakers are Doctor Richard...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Baby born as result of new fertility method (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tanya Shields reports from Liverpool on the birth of John Liam Donaldson to parents Kathleen and John Donaldson. The birth was made possible by a revolutionary fertility treatment. The new intra-vaginal...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Network (1982)

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Vox pop

Finger on the Pulse, part 1 of 3. This week’s Network programme from BRMB Radio examines the condition of the NHS, with claims cutbacks have led to longer waiting times, falling standards and a shortage of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

David Starkey’s the Six Wives of Henry VIII (2003)

aka: Six Wives of Henry VIII, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 195 minutes), £19.99

Historian David Starkey tells the stories of the women who married Henry VIII, revealing in intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous, dangerous life at court, including the...

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Nation’s Health, The (2005)

Subject

History; Medical sciences; Social Studies

A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...

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