Channel tunnel breakthrough

Title

Channel tunnel breakthrough

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

10 Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:03:05

Description

James Bays reports on the the first major breakthrough of the Channel Tunnel as the eight-kilometre tunnel between the M20 at Folkestone and the coast at Dover is completed. He also comments on Eurotunnel problems. Includes interviews with Cecil Parkinson, Transport Secretary; Alastair Morton, Eurotunnel.

Contributors

Cecil Parkinson; James Bays; Alastair Morton

Keywords

UK; Great Britain; Railway transport; France; England; Engineering; Channel tunnels; Underwater tunnels; Railway tunnels; Eurotunnel

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