LBC reports

Title

LBC reports

Genre

News report; Interview; News bulletin; Advertisement; Special

TX Date

12 Apr 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:45:08

Description

Steve Wood presents an episode of LBC Reports on the history of manned space missions and NASA launch of the first re-usable space shuttle Columbia as it happens, with actuality of lift-off. Speaking are: space correspondent Ian Ridpath; Andrew Manderstam reporting live from Cape Canaveral; Daily Mirror science correspondent Arthur Smith; John Temple and Terry White, NASA. Also includes actuality of the first moon landing with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Charles Duke; interview with Assistant Editor of the Sunday Express Magazine, Stephen Claxton, about the new supplement; advertisements; news bulletin with local Tom Ellis on Brixton riots and Neville Plumley(?) reporting on a raid at Harewood Park Kennels in Herefordshire.

Contributors

Andrew Manderstam; Steve Wood; Arthur Smith; Ian Ridpath; Neil Armstrong; Terry White; Steven Claxton; Charles Duke; John Temple; Tom Ellis; Neville Plumley(?)

Keywords

USA; London; Newspapers; USSR; Riots; Periodicals; Newspaper press; Space exploration; Moon landings; Space technology; Space sciences; News flow; Safety; Space; Brixton; Computers; Aerospace engineering; NASA; Space shuttles; Engines; Jules Verne; Sunday Express; Cape Canaveral; Space research; Press advertising; Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii

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