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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: Monday 9/2/1981
Production Date
Monday 9/2/1981
Introduced By
Stuart Hall
Producer
Tom German
Newsreader
Alistair Macdonald
Studio-based and videotape material in this programme (not usually held at the NWFA but please enquire)
MANCHESTER VT: RNW A106Y/1:
Stuart Hall with a selection of viewers’ letters about Lancashire dialect. Incl. captions and VT of Angela Rippon reading a mock news script in Lancashire dialect. and then repeating it in the Queen’s English. 0’47” TOTAL VT DUR: 6’35”
RNW A105E/11:
Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Mrs. Tilly Marshall, in the Newcastle studio, about the book she has written on the artist L.S. Lowry. Incl. 16mm film of Lowry’s paintings. Mute. BBC Stock. 25’, 0’40” TOTAL VT DUR: 4’10”
STUDIO:
Malcolm Balen, snf, talking to the Chairman of the North West Water Authority, George Mann, about the budget meetings held to discuss water rates for the North West. 2’44”
On Monday 9/2/1981 there were 5 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on further redundancies announced by the Mersey Docks & Harbour Company as part of their new profitabiltiy new profitability plan. Sepmag/Commag. BBC stock/Higginson.
2 mins 07 secs
2
Film of the aftermath of a fire at a bungalow in Middleton, near Manchester in which the body of an old woman was found. Mute. Park. (Ali oov)
0 mins 17 secs
3
Film of the aftermath of a fire in a four-storey block of flats in High Street, Stalybridge. Mute. Park. (Ali oov)
0 mins 16 secs
4
Film of snow and sleet covering roads across the Pennies. Mute. Park. (Ali oov)
0 mins 18 secs
5
Debi Davies, snf, talking to Martin Sykes, wholesaler, about the effect of the European fishing dispute on fish prices in the shops. Sepmag/Commag. Park.
