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  1. Diana Moran on her fight against breast cancer (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Peter Henley talks to fitness instructor and journalist Diana Moran (aka The Green Goddess) about her book - A More Difficult Exercise - that deals with her battle with breast cancer, and why she concealed...

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  2. Mother of imprisoned John McCarthy dies (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Catherine Comerford of the Friends of John McCarthy on the death of his mother Sheila McCarthy in Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge last night. She had been fighting cancer for some years. John’s family...

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  3. Search for Traveller boy with cancer (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Angus Moorat reports on the case of a young Irish Traveller boy, John Corcoran, who has been taken by his father from Mayday Hospital in Croydon, Surrey, prior to receiving cancer treatment. Police believe...

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  4. Families living near Sellafield win legal aid for cancer fight (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    James Matthews interviews solicitor Martyn Day about a legal case in Cumbria, where families have won financial backing to try and prove the Sellafield nuclear plant is killing local children. Four families...

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  5. Diana Moran on new cancer directory (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Diana Moran, television keep-fit instructor (also known as The Green Goddess), about a new national directory of contacts for people with cancer, called Help Is There, which has been launched...

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  6. Graham Chapman obituary (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; Obituary; Music

    Camilla Affleck reports on the death of comedian and writer, Graham Chapman, who’s lost his year-long fight against cancer. His colleagues from the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television show have been...

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  7. Graham Chapman, Monty Python star is buried at Maidstone (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Obituary

    Catherine Bayfield reports on the death from cancer and quiet family funeral in Maidstone, Kent of Monty Python star, Graham Chapman. Includes reading by Reverend Tony Porter of a poem written by Chapman’s...

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  8. Cancer victim shoots two dead in Stockport (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Henry Mathews reports from Stockport, Greater Manchester on a terminally ill gunman shooting 2 dead before turning the gun on himself, the second fatal shooting incident in the area in a month. Includes Jim...

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  9. Report on nuclear workers (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with UK Health Minister, Roger Freeman, on the risks facing workers in the nuclear industry, after a report commissioned by the Department of Health found a link between fathers who work at...

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  10. Terminally ill boy gains world record for 33 million get well cards (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Marion Shergold, mother of 11 year-old terminal cancer sufferer Craig, has received over 33 million get well cards and has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Senders from around the world...

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