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  1. Labour Party Conference (1977)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report on the Labour Party Conference, 1977; debates on construction workers unemployment due to cuts in public spending; Rhodesia; racial discrimination, the National Front and banning of marches; abortion....

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  2. Jack Jones on building industry unemployment (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Jack Jones, TUC, on unemployment in the building industry, cuts in public expenditure that contributed to it and possible solutions. And on pay policy negotiations. Interviewer not identified.

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  3. New Falklands airport (1983)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on the departure of a ship from the UK carrying materials for a new airport on the Falkland Islands. Includes interviews with company officials and workers: George Langford; Oliver Whitehead; Freddie...

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  4. Cuban casualties during US invasion of Grenada (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with a Cuban on the heavy casualties among Cuban construction workers when resisting surrender during the US invasion of Grenada. Male speaker and interviewer not identified.

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  5. Reaction to US invasion of Grenada (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Support is expressed for the US invasion of Grenada despite Cuban casualties, and the reaction of European allies including the British government condemned. Male speaker not identified. Interviewer not heard.

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  6. Reagan on US policy on Lebanon and Grenada (1983)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report on US President Ronald Reagan’s speech defending the presence of the US peacekeeping contingent in the Lebanon following the Beirut barracks bombing and also US intervention in Grenada, and claiming...

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  7. Workers held in Iraq whilst completing palace for Saddam Hussein (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified British worker on construction workers not being allowed to leave Iraq whilst completing a palace for Saddam Hussein, he missed his mother’s funeral. Male interviewer not identified

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  8. Death of a worker on the Channel Tunnel raises health and safety issues (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Yigal Chazan reports as Health and Safety watchdogs have launched an investigation after the death of Channel Tunnel construction worker Charles McCourt. McCourt was killed by an electric shock only three...

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