Customer describes contaminated oranges

Title

Customer describes contaminated oranges

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Feb 1978

Year of production

1978

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:01:20

Description

Interview with Christine Chapman, a customer at a branch of Marks and Spencer in London, on buying a net of oranges which contained mercury; the poison had been deliberately placed there by a terrorist group. The woman says she called the authorities on finding the metallic substance in the fruit. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Christine Chapman

Keywords

Terrorism; Press; UK; Poisoning; Marks & Spencer; Food industry; Metals; Mercury (element); Fruit; Christine Chapman

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.