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  1. Naomi James on her voyage around the globe (1978)

    Genre
    Interview; Music

    Adventurer Naomi James, the first British woman to sail around the world single-handed, describes overcoming difficulties at Cape Horn near New Zealand. James spent some of her time carving a chess set and...

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  2. Nicholas Smith on Sussex hostage ordeal (1984)

    Genre
    Interview

    Solicitor Nicholas Smith, his son Benjamin, and school friend Alastair Crawford, talk about their ordeal after they were held hostage in their Sussex home following the shooting of a policeman. Smith tells...

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  3. Romania’s top chess player seeks asylum in UK (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Tim Knight reports on the case of Mihai Suba, Romania’s top chess grand master, who says he wants to defect to Britain. He has applied to the Home Office for political asylum, leaving his wife and one son...

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  4. Raymond Keene on chess move map in murder case (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chess correspondent of the Times and grandmaster, Raymond Keene on being called in by police to consult on a map with chess moves on it which was found on a suspected murderer, and his belief that he has...

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  5. World chess champion on intimidation claims (1993)

    Genre
    Press conference

    Press conference by world chess champion Gary Kasparov over claims by his British opponent, Nigel Short, that the KGB had trained him in intimidation, he says his conscience is clean and that the problem is...

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  6. Man-computer chess contest (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    Peter Deeley interviews Frederick Friedel who devised the world’s best computer chess programme Fritz, which world chess champion Gary Kasparov is to play tomorrow in London, in the decider of a three...

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