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A Chance to live (1985)

Marion Wrigley, a Preston housewife, spent the last few weeks of her life setting up an appeal to raise cash for research and to seek for donors to help sufferers of the rare bone marrow disease Aplastic...

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Celebrity interview (1989)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Chris Barber

Chris Barber, currently on the 35th anniversary tour of his Jazz and Blues Band, talks about his successful musical career and selects four of his all-time greats.

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Robin’s best: a collection with the best of Robin Ross show (1985)

Hear how...Toyah’s auntie died a proud lady...why Bob Geldof won’t give up...what Feargal Sharkey thinks about contracts...why Elton John is passionate about football...how Midge Ure and Mark King worked...

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Tears for fears (1985)

aka: Robin Ross talking to Curt Smith about their success

This programme focusses on the success of ‘Tears for Fears’, one of the top bands of 1985. Every single released has gone into the top ten and the group’s album, ‘Songs from the Big Chair’ has received...

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The Hollies story (1987)

Groups come and groups go... but the Hollies, it seems, go on for ever. Twenty-five years on the road and a track record of 45 singles and 45 albums behind them, the Hollies still pack ‘em in from Perth to...

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Jane Austen: the Chawton years (1987)

aka: Documentary: Jane Austen - the Chawton Years

Sean Street tours Chawton near Alton in Hampshire with Curator Jean Bowden. The programme includes extracts from Jane Austen’s letters and an interview with the foremost Jane Austen scholar, Lord David...

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The Prince - The Press (1987)

The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George) is probably one of the most talked about or written about men in Britain. A day doesn’t go by when he’s not accused of living on a different plane or...

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Celebrity interview (1986)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with John Mortimer

John Mortimer - When asked whether he missed being a barrister he replied in the negative: ‘I wake up every morning thinking, ‘Thank God I don’t have to go to that Old Bailey and pretend to be respectful...

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Whatever has the old place come to? (1986)

In this special documentary, LBC reporter Rodney Bennett returns to Allhallows in the West Country, the school he left 100 terms - or 33 years ago. He finds, not surprisingly, that many changes have taken...

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