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Actors’ union Equity on the closed shop (1977)

Genre

Speech

Speech by A.G. Bracken from the actors’ union Equity, at the 1977 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on the level of unemployment in the entertainment industry. He talks about the minimum wage,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Business Programme No.4 (1988)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- The plan is to bring sattelite television channels, video-games, home shopping and much else into the homes of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Equity re-structuring row (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male spokesman (poss. Peter Plouviez) for the Equity actors union, on in-fighting over attempts to re-structure the organisation. Actress Vanessa Redgrave and her involvement...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Peter Plouviez on Equity funding of Chicago (1980)

Genre

Interview

Peter Plouviez on the Equity Theatre Emergency Fund providing finance for the musical Chicago, enabling the show at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End to run for another eleven weeks. Also an...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kathy Crosby barred by Equity (1979)

Genre

Interview

Greater London Council (GLC) Labour member Illtyd Harrington on the refusal of the actors’ union Equity to allow American actress Kathy Crosby (widow of the late singer Bing Crosby) to appear on stage in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Sarah Brightman and Equity (1987)

Genre

Interview

Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Equity’s refusal to allow Sarah Brightman to play on Broadway, in The Phantom of the Opera. They talk about how uniquely qualified she is for the role, how the problem...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Actresses earn less than actors (1992)

Genre

Interview

Actor Jill Gascoigne talks about a survey carried out by acting union, Equity, which reveals female actors are earning up to sixty per cent less than their male counterparts. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

McGarry on advertising dispute (1983)

Genre

Interview; Discussion

Ian McGarry of Equity and David Wheeler of the IPA on the dispute over payments to actors whose commercials are shown on two new channels, TV-am and Channel 4. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

John Barron on VAT in theatres (1979)

Genre

Interview

Bob Holness interviews actor and Equity President, John Barron, on a protest in London against the Government’s implementation of VAT on theatre tickets and the theatre in general. (Broadcast on the AM...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Actors’ union lifts Jonathan Pryce ban (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech

Paul Woodley reports on the lifting of an Equity actors’ union ban on British actor Jonathan Pryce’s playing a Eurasian pimp in the Broadway production of the musical, Miss Saigon. After a six-hour-long...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio