City week

Title

City week

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech; Discussion

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:26:13

Description

City Week, a look at the week’s financial news through the eyes of IRN’s Financial Unit, hosted by Douglas Moffitt with Malcolm Brabant, Mike Gardiner(?), Greg Strange, Tom Maddocks and directed by Ray Gannon(?). Topics: continued rise in oil prices and poor supply; negative and positive economic forecasts; economic policy; Regeneration of British Industry report; TUC conference on employment and technology; weekly review of opportunities due to overseas aid; new bank notes; house prices and mortgages. Speaking are: National Institute of Economic and Social Research Editor Michael Surrey; Dr Tom Jessell, Economic Models; economic author James Morrell; Len Murray, TUC; commodity expert Dick Grace with regular review of markets; Alan Watson, Bank of England; Mark Boleat, Building Societies Association; Deputy Chief General Manager of Lloyds Bank, Fred Crawley.

Contributors

Malcolm Brabant; Len Murray; Tom Maddocks; Mark Boleat; Greg Strange; Douglas Moffitt; Mike Gardiner(?); Alan Watson; Ray Gannon(?); Dick Grace; Michael Surrey; Tom Jessell; James Morrell; Fred Crawley

Keywords

Trade unions; Industry; Reports; Prices; TUC; Housing; Unemployment; Technological change; Uganda; Economic policy; Lloyds Bank; Economic systems; Energy shortages; Oil; Building societies; Economic recession; Jordan; Oil extraction; Development aid; Economic forecasting; Bangladesh; Share dealing; North Sea; Mortgages (loans); Home ownership; Bank notes; Commodities; Business cycles; Economic evaluation; Supply

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