LBC Reports the Budget special

Title

LBC Reports the Budget special

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech; Discussion; Parliamentary debate; News bulletin; Advertisement; Trailer

TX Date

10 Mar 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

01:04:50

Description

LBC Reports the Budget special with discussion of Chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s third Budget and its effect on industry, business, the economy and personal finance, with Peter Allen and another male reporter. Speaking are Managing Director of Whitbread Anthony (Tony) Simonds-Gooding; former CBI President Sir John Greenborough; Cliff Holland, National Federation of Self-employed and Small Businessmen; CPSA General Secretary Ken Thomas; Deputy Chairman of the British Retail Consortium Colin Paterson; Professor Alan Budd, London Business School; Terry Ward, Cambridge Economic Policy Group; Building Societies Association Secretary General Norman Griggs; Director-General of the National Association of Pension Fund Managers, Henry James. Also Barry Jordan canvasses reaction from visitors to the Ideal Home Exhibition. With general news read by presenter and Greg Strange - speaking are Howe, opposition leader Michael Foot and TUC Chairman Alan Fisher, reports by John Perkins, industrial editor and Scarlett(?) Maguire(?); travel (with Allan King, Marie(?) Collett(?), Tim Woodner(?)); finance (Tom Maddocks); weather; sports (Mike Lewis); advertisements; trailer with Mike Dickin. Ends abruptly.

Contributors

John Greenborough; Geoffrey Howe; John Perkins; Alan Fisher; Peter Allen; Michael Foot; Tom Maddocks; Mike Dickin; Greg Strange; Mike Lewis; Ken Thomas; Allan King; Anthony Simonds-Gooding; Barry Jordan; Norman Griggs; Terry Ward; Alan Budd; Cliff Holland; Colin Paterson; Henry James; Tim Woodner(?); Marie(?) Collett(?); Scarlett(?) Maguire(?)

Keywords

Budgets; Industry; Wages; Taxation; Business; Unemployment; Pensions; Small business; Economic policy; Employees; Geoffrey Howe; Economic systems; National budgets; Economic recovery; Economic forecasting; Mortgages (loans); Financial markets; personal finance

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