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Towards 2000. Field Marshal Michael Carver soliloquises on the future defence of Europe and various possible scenarios for the remainder of the 20th Century. Carver discusses Britain’s role in European...
Interview with the manager (not identified) of Massey’s Chop House in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London, after recent building works uncovered an original restaurant menu from 1958. The establishment...
Discussion of the background to the different republican and loyalist political and terrorist groups and factions in Northern Ireland and in the Irish Republic. Both male speakers not identified. Audio...
Interview with Eyeshen(?) Guvener(?), the wife of the First Counsellor at the Turkish embassy in London, on the importance of the army to the Turkish people and on the background to the modern Turkish state...
Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. This episode focuses on the history of Kentish Town, and spiritualist bookselling. Journalist, Gillian Tindall, author of The Fields Beneath, says transport was...
This After Eight special, I Have to Tell You Now, investigates the outbreak of the Second World War. Includes archive audio of speech by Adolf Hitler, news broadcast on Germany’s invasion of Poland and UK...
Interview with Jill Craigie, wife of Labour Party leader Michael Foot about the women’s liberation movement (which she has been writing a book on) and the role of women now including her own. Male...
Report on the 80th anniversary and celebrations of the first transatlantic broadcast by Marconi. Includes morse code example; Ron Legerden(?) re-enacting the broadcast, speaking in Cornwall to Newfoundland...
Report on the tenth anniversary of the Watergate affair in the USA. Speakers include White House worker G. Gordon Liddy and disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Male reporter not identified. Clip starts...
Report on the restoration of the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, London - used to plot the UK military campaign and run the country during the Second World War. Includes archive recording of Prime Minister...
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