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Air Speed Record Broken

Date released

12 Nov 1945

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1599

NoS ID

148397

Story no

6 / 6

Group Captain Wilson and Mr Greenwood reach 606 miles per hour.

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Macbeth (1947 Radio)

Series

Theatre Guild on the Air

Director

Homer Fickett

Radio adaptation of Macbeth by Eric Barno. Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson are the Macbeths.

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City week (1979)

Genre

Interview; Special; Speech

City Week, presented by Tom Maddocks. The week’s news as seen through the eyes of IRN’s Financial Unit. Topics this week: UK Government’s handling of the economy and the latest financial figures;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ripper Sutcliffe Shorts: a special programme (1981)

See also AV769/671/S1. Track 1- Factory worker Carol Jones was Peter Sutcliffe’s first girlfriend. The couple went out for 4 years in their teens. Carol, who still lives in Bingley, remembers a very...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

The Airspeed Record

Date released

12 Nov 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1534

NoS ID

039777

Story no

4 / 4

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Group Captain Wilson and Test Pilot Greenwood shatter world record in standard RAF jet fighter.

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Meteor’s Speed Record

Date released

12 Nov 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

858

NoS ID

013620

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meteor Break Speed Record. DESCRIPTION: The "Gloster Meteor IV" flown by Eric Greenwood and the "Britannia" flown by Group Captain Wilson attempt the Air Speed Record. Both planes made...

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Airspeed Record

Date released

3 Dec 1945

Series name

World Pictorial News

Issue no

239

NoS ID

156475

Story no

4 / 4

The British-made Meteor. Barrage balloons mark course of the first flight. A view of "what six hundred miles an hour looks like from the pilot’s cockpit". First test runs made by Eric Greenwood, chief...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Meteor Speed Tests

Date released

29 Oct 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

856

NoS ID

013605

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meteor Speed Trials. DESCRIPTION: The "Meteor" is being well prepared for the forthcoming attempt on the World Air Speed Record. The course will be flown low over the sea at Herne Bay,...

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Sir Thomas More (1956 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Apocrypha, The

Producer

Michael Bakewell

Radio adaptation of Sir Thomas More, a play attributed to Shakespeare, Dekker, and others, adapted for radio by Ormerod Greenwood and produced by Michael Bakewell. With Michael Hordern in the title role.

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Midsummer Night’s Rave, A (2002 Film)

Director

Gil, Jr. Cates

Producer

Gil, Jr. Cates; Summer Forest Hoeckel

Feature film. A Midsummer Night’s Dream loosely adapted to the rave culture.

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