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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 6 of 6 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Tuesday 22/3/1983
Production Date
Tuesday 22/3/1983
Introduced By
Stuart Hall
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 : 1/RNW A312/3:
Albert Booth, Labour Transport spokesman, talking in the House of Commons at the debate on the closure of Horwich loco works. Incl. slides. 00m40s
1/RNW A312/2:
Stuart Hall with this week's selection of viewers' letters. Incl. captions and 16mm film.
Part 1: Film of Blackpool promenade and seafront. Commag. BBC Stock. (Stuart oov). 10ft 00m17s
Part 2: Film of Andrew Troop, the North West director of the C.B.I. talking about the cost of a scheme to clean up the River Mersey. Sepmag. BBC Stock. 05ft 00m08s
TOTAL VT DUR: 05m50s
STUDIO:
Martin Henfield, snf, reporting on the effect that the closure of Horwich would have on the town, and on the debate in the House of Commons on the planned closure. Incl. 16mm film, slides and captions. Mute. BBC Stock. (Martin oov). 19ft 00m31s
TOTAL DUR: 02m05s
David Davies, snf, reporting on a 19 year old who committed suicide by jumping from the 13th floor of a block of flats. 01m38s
On Tuesday 22/3/1983 there were 6 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 the possible closure of the ferry between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson.
1 mins 38 secs
2
Film of Vickers at Barrow where another nuclear powered submarine for the Royal Navy is to be built. Mute. BBC Stock. (John oov).
0 mins 25 secs
3
Film of Ford's at Halewood, Merseyside, where the assembly workers' strike is now official. Commag. BBC Stock. (John oov).
0 mins 19 secs
4
Martin Henfield, snf, reporting on a new working museum that opened today and has been set up to preserve the machinery and skills of spinning and weaving, which are dying trades. He spoke to Bill Brooks, an employee, and David Sekers, the director of Quarry Bank Mill. Sepmag. Ward.
3 mins 31 secs
5
Colin Philpott, snf, talking to Bill Roberts who cleans and tends the unmanned stop at Hawarden Station, near Chester, for love and not money. Semag/Commag. Higginson.
02 mins 52 secs
6
Film of Mrs Gertrude Phillipson who was 105 today. Mute. Park. (Stuart oov).
