City week

Title

City week

Genre

Interview; Discussion

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:26:28

Description

City Week: the week’s news as seen through the eyes of IRN’s Financial Unit. Introduced by Douglas Moffitt. Topics include oil prices and North Sea oil; TUC and Government meeting; survey on future prospects for employment; exports from UK; book Buying a Shop by Anthony St John Price; skyships; book How to Plan Your Life Insurance by Christopher Gilchrist. Includes interviews with Adrian Graves, Road Haulage Association (by Tom Maddocks); Financial Weekly Deputy News Editor, Tom Lloyd; Dick Grace, Conti Commodities Ltd; Employment Secretary Jim Prior (by parliamentary editor Peter Allen); Len Murray of TUC (by industrial editor Vivian White); Manpower MD Lance Secretan; David Royce, under-secretary in charge of export development; Anthony St John Price; Malcolm Wren, MD of Thermo-Skyships (by Tom Maddocks); Christopher Gilchrist (also by Maddocks). Produced by Ray Gannon(?).

Contributors

James Prior; Len Murray; Peter Allen; Vivian White; Tom Maddocks; Douglas Moffitt; Ray Gannon(?); Dick Grace; Lance Secretan; Adrian Graves; Tom Lloyd; David Royce; Malcolm Wren; Christopher Gilchrist

Keywords

Books; Trade unions; Exports; Prices; TUC; Economics; UK; Unemployment; Employment; Road haulage; Fuels; Shops; Surveys; Oil; Oil extraction; North Sea; Meetings; Financial markets; Life insurance; Commodities; Skyships; How to Plan Your Life Insurance; Overseas Trade Board; Buying a Shop

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