City week
- Title
- City week
- Genre
- Interview; Speech; Discussion; Special
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:24:41
- Description
- City Week. A review of the week’s news as seen by IRN’s Financial Unit, hosted by Douglas Moffitt and Tom Maddocks. Topics covered include: financial support for firms involved in industrial disputes; the Government’s sale of British Petroleum; computer technology; British language aptitude and effect on foreign trade. Speakers include: Dick Grace, Conti Commodities; Sir John Methven, Confederation of British Industry; Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor; Jerry Culvert(?), Financial Weekly; John Silkin, Labour industry spokesman; John Anderson, Portable Business Machines; Michael Hicks Beach, Royal Society for the Arts; Nigel Bryant, Inbucon. Reporters include: Vivian White; Robin Jackson. Studio engineer is Alvin Fuggle.
- Contributors
- John Methven; John Silkin; Geoffrey Howe; Vivian White; Tom Maddocks; Douglas Moffitt; John Anderson; Dick Grace; Robin Jackson; Jerry Culvert(?); Alvin Fuggle; Michael Hicks Beach; Nigel Bryant
- Keywords
- Budgets; Trade unions; Reports; Government; Labour Party; Exports; Prices; Inflation; Taxation; Economics; Conservative Party; Monetary policy; Business; Exchange rates; Surveys; Economic policy; Finance; International trade; Foreign exchange; Computers; Foreign aid; Economic forecasting; Currencies; Costs; Economic statistics; Financial markets; Sudan; Commodities; Languages
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