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Interview with unidentified male speaker (poss. Keith Sneddon?) on the reasons for the decline of British Rail.
Paul Maurice reports on HOTOL, Britain’s Horizontal Take off Launcher, a space plane which will initially launch satellites. Speaks to Engineering Director of Rolls-Royce, Gordon Lewis, who comments on...
Report on the launch of a new British airliner, a small 72-seat, propeller-driven aircraft. Looks at the first flight, with feedback from test pilot, Robin(?) Robinson, and negotiations for manufacturing....
Report on the news that the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Sussex will have to close and/or relocate as a result of financial cutbacks. Includes Head of the Observatory’s Time Department, Dr John...
Lighter than Air. Documentary on airships, fifty years after the Hindenburg disaster; examines British company, Airship Industries. Interviews with Alan Birchmore, Roger Munk, Nick Greenwood, Kerry Figgis,...
Report on the shuttle tests in the USA to determine why the Challenger space shuttle exploded on take off; reaction from Ed Garrison from shuttle construction company Morton Thiokol; Roger Boisjoly, former...
Report on the future for project HOTOL (Horizontal Take-Off and Landing - space aircraft that could take off from normal airports) after Trade Minister Kenneth Clarke would not put any more funds into the...
Report on a visit by Liberal Party leader David Steel to a crane factory near Leeds (run after a management buyout) and a farm in Ryedale, during the 1987 General Election campaign. Includes Steel being...
Gary Duffy reports on the news that more than one thousand jobs are to be created in Northern Ireland, where the French car component company, Montupet, is taking over the former De Lorean sports car plant...
John Large, an independent nuclear expert, has been commissioned by Somerset County Council to assess evidence on the safety aspects of a planned new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point. He accuses the Central...
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