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Kiddar’s luck (1982)

Genre

Biography; Fiction; Serial

Kiddar’s Luck, episode 7. Originally published in 1951, Common’s best-known book, the autobiographical Kiddar’s Luck, in which he vividly describes his childhood on the streets of Edwardian Tyneside,...

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IVF court case in USA (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the ongoing US court case involving Junior Davis, who does not wish fertilised eggs to be implanted in his estranged wife following IVF treatment, and on the wider argument over whether a frozen...

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Celebrity interview (1974)

Genre

Interview

Duncan Campbell interviews John Williams, Australian-born British classical guitarist, on the show Celebrity Interview. On his life, childhood, career, musical development, love of guitar, inspirations,...

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The night is young (1989)

Genre

Interview; News bulletin; Music; Advertisement; Trailer

Sue Jameson interviewing football personality Jimmy Hill on The Night is Young programme. Covering his childhood; career as a football player and coach; courting controversy with a Saudi Arabian venture and...

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Nightline (1988)

Genre

Advertisement; Interview; News bulletin; Phone-in

Mike Allen interviews singer Eartha Kitt, on his Nightline programme and the public phone-in. Speaks about her stage role with Orson Welles in the 1950s; CIA dossier due to anti-Vietnam war statements;...

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Village Life: Woodcote (1986)

Mike Matthews in association with Vincent’s BMW this week visits the village life of Woodcote. It lies 8 miles Nortwest of Reading, on the B4074, in Southern Oxfordshire. One single track with 7...

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60 years of radio (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Jingle; Special

The development of sound broadcasting, Guglielmo Marconi, and the wireless and beginnings at Chelmsford, Essex. Betty Hantz, Marconi historian, tells of his life from childhood, his interest in wireless...

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Network (1982)

Genre

Discussion; Documentary; Interview; Jingle; Special

60 Years of Radio, originally broadcast by Essex Radio who have set up a radio station in the birthplace of radio, Chelmsford. Betty Hantz, Marconi historian, tells of Marconi’s life from his childhood,...

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George and Gladys Cooper, Love Story (1981)

And finally, using a building society has turned out to be a good investment for two Reading old age pensioners as Fiona Armstrong now reports. A lovely love story of George and Gladys Cooper, who after 42...

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Matthews Meets: Chapman Pincher (1986)

The guest today is Chapman Pincher, journalist and novelist, born in India on the 29 of March 1914, but lived in England since childhood. His mother was an actress, and his father used to run a pub and also...

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