City week

Title

City week

Genre

Interview; Speech; Discussion; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:21:02

Description

City Week, a look at the week’s financial news through the eyes of IRN’s Financial Unit, hosted by financial editor Douglas Moffitt with Tom Maddocks. Topics include the mini budget; bank rate cut; British Leyland to produce Japanese cars; weekly look at opportunities due to overseas aid; share market indexes. Speaking are: Chancellor Denis Healey; shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe; Terry Ward, Cambridge Economic Policy Group; TGWU General Secretary Moss Evans; Barry Riley, Financial Times; Dick Grace, Conti Commodities Ltd with regular review of markets. Studio direction by Ray Gannon(?).

Contributors

Moss Evans; Geoffrey Howe; Denis Healey; Tom Maddocks; Douglas Moffitt; Ray Gannon(?); Dick Grace; Terry Ward; Barry Riley

Keywords

Budgets; Taxation; British Leyland; Car industry; Fiscal policy; Kenya; Exchange rates; Economic policy; Finance; Economic systems; National budgets; Japan; Development aid; Economic forecasting; Share dealing; Currencies; Financial markets; Malaysia; Commodities; Business cycles; Economic evaluation; Financial Times; Sabah

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