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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 5 of 5 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Wednesday 6/9/1978
Production Date
Wednesday 6/9/1978
Introduced By
David Davies
Producer
Steve Ireland
Newsreader
John Mundy
Studio-based and videotape material in this programme (not usually held at the NWFA but please enquire)
MANCHESTER VT: VTC/6ST/NW7836/5/MR: Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Des Billington, Chairman of the Action Committee of West Coast Ship Repairers in Liverpool, representatives of which were in Brighton to lobby TUC delegates. Theywere in the BBC studio at the TUC conference. 2’42’’
VTC/6ST/NW7836/6/MR: (16mm film) Film of divers working underwater. Mute. Loaned by Vickers-Intertec. 20’’
STUDIO INTERVIEW: David Davies, snf, talking to Geoff Hyde who’s edited a book out today called “A Review of Greater Manchester Transport” - which explains how transport has progressed since 1824.
On Wednesday 6/9/1978 there were 5 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on an invention, designed and built in Liverpool, which is now undergoing trials 400 feet below the sea off the Kyle of Lochalsh and which could revolutionise underwater oil exploitation all over the world. It’s being manufactured by Vickers-Intertec and she spoke to their managing director, David Hingston, their director Norman Jackson, and a sub pilot, Dave Smith. Sepmag. Glasgow crew.
5 mins 01 secs
2
GVs of Cammel Lairds shipyard and West Coast Ship repairers in Liverpool. Mute. BBC Stock. (David oov)
0 mins 36 secs
3
Film of housewives in North Liverpool staging a demonstration against the introduction of a new municipal bus service. Mute. Ward. (John oov)
0 mins 21 secs
4
Film of demonstrators outside Liverpool Town Hall, protesting against the sale of Corporation house and flats. Mute. Ward. (John oov)
0 mins 20 secs
5
John Wilson of the Leighton Moss Bird Sanctuary at Silverdale in Lancashire, giving us a guided tour ofthe many varieties of butterflies and moths that can be found there. Sepmag. Stephens.
