City week
- Title
- City week
- Genre
- Interview; Speech; Parliamentary debate
- TX Date
- May 1979
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:27:39
- Description
- City Week, presented by Tom Maddocks, looks back at recent financial issues. Programme comes just after the 1979 General Election and includes excerpts from Margaret Thatcher’s maiden Prime Minister’s Questions as PM. Also reports on taxation and VAT; role of trade unions in the economy; pre-budget speech; book on jailed fraudster, Emil Savundra and Fire, Auto and Marine insurance company; EEC and Europe; international trade; elections in Italy; developments in Philips electronics; commodities market. Reporters include Bruce Pavey, Douglas Moffitt. Speakers include Peter Snape MP (22/05/79); Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (22/05/79); Denis Healey MP; Len Murray TUC; Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor; Jon Connell, author; Andrew Hutchinson, IOD; Christopher Johnson, Lloyds Bank; Gian Giacomo Beira(?), Philips; Dick Grace, Conti Commodities; Cecil Turner, author. Studio director: Ray Gannon(?).
- Contributors
- Geoffrey Howe; Margaret Thatcher; Bruce Pavey; Len Murray; Denis Healey; Tom Maddocks; Andrew Hutchinson; Peter Snape; Douglas Moffitt; Ray Gannon(?); Dick Grace; Christopher Johnson; Jon Connell; Gian Giacomo Beira(?); Cecil Turner
- Keywords
- Books; Elections; Trade unions; Taxation; Economics; EEC; Conservative Party; Unemployment; Privatization; Europe; International trade; Financial policy; Italy; Value Added Tax; Financial statistics; Financial markets; Commodities; Emil Savundra; Fraud: The Amazing Career of Doctor Savundra; Philips
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