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GREAT FIRE TRAGEDY IN QUEBEC

Date released

29 Dec 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1750

NoS ID

386308

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Fifty orphan girls perish when Hospice St. Charles is gutted by a blaze in spite of the Fire Brigade’s heroic efforts.

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Cicely Saunders (2012)

Subject

Social welfare; Women’s studies

A short podcast looking at the founder of the modern hospice movement, Cicely Saunders, who revolutionised palliative care. Part of The New Elizabethans, a series presented by James Naughtie to mark the...

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AIDS care at home for Californians (1987)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the home care hospice system set up in California for those dying of AIDS coinciding with the visit of UK cabinet minister Norman Fowler to the USA on an AIDS factfinding mission. Includes...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.47: Programme 47 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

Ocean Sound This Week, No. 47 Programme 47 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 13 September 1987. Presented by PAUL EASTON....

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Mildmay Mission AIDS hospital opens (1988)

Genre

Interview

Margaret Shiels reports on the opening of the Mildmay Mission hospital. The world’s first hospice ward set aside exclusively for AIDS patients in east London claims to be the only Christian AIDs hospice in...

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PM visits London hospice (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the visit of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham, South London. Speaking are: Dame Cicely Saunders, founder; Monica Steedman, outpatient; Margaret Thatcher....

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Famed in Song and Story

Date released

7 Jan 1929

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1570; Super Issue No.: 29/2

NoS ID

087344

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe cameraman makes perilous assent to Hospice of St Bernard (8,111 ft up the Alps) to obtain these graphic pictures of world-famous monks and their equally famous dogs.

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Queen celebrates 40 years on the throne (1992)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Interview

Report on the low-key celebrations on the 40th anniversary of the Queen taking the throne. She visited a hospice near her Norfolk estate, Sandringham. Report by George Matheson includes reaction from the...

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Norman Fowler in USA on AIDS research trip (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with cabinet minister Norman Fowler who is visiting the US to investigate ways of combating AIDS and treating those with the disease. He speaks after visiting a hospice in San Francisco. Male...

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Ian Stewart euthanasia case (1995)

Genre

Interview

Reaction to the dilemma of a family from Devon who are fighting to be able to give a lethal injection to their terminally ill and disabled two-year-old son Ian Stewart from Professor Jack Scarisbrick from...

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