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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 26/11/1980
Production Date
Wednesday 26/11/1980
Introduced By
Stuart Hall
Producer
John McManus
Newsreader
John Mundy
Studio-based and videotape material in this programme (not usually held at the NWFA but please enquire)
MANCHESTER VT: RNW A048A/5: (16mm film)
Malcolm Balen, snf, reporting from one of the “trains for the aged” - the special £1.00 away days for pensioners. He spoke to BR’s Divisional Passenger Manager, Ian McCubbin, buffet car attendant Marie Mitchell and to some of the pensioners. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. 203’, 5’25”
RNW A047F/10:
Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Joan Busby from Crosby, who, at 61, is still climbing mountains and trekking through unexplored countries. 4’15”
STUDIO INTERVIEW:
Martin Henfield, snf, talking to Alf Slinn, National Vice President of the Licence Victuallers Association, about our drinking habits. 2’24”
On Wednesday 26/11/1980 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 the big increase in the number of wounding offences and the use of stanley knives as offensive weapons on Merseyside. sepmag. Ward.
0 mins 39 secs
2.
Film of civil servants in Manchester, who stopped work for the afternoon. Mute. park. (John oov)
0 mins 15 secs
3.
Film of the opening of a new library at Moss Side in Manchester. Mute. Park. (John oov)
0 mins 20 secs
4.
Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on a strike by one of the press shop shifts at Fords, Halewood. Sepmag/Commag. Ward.
1 mins 52 secs
5.
Martin Henfield, snf, talking to Jansis Robinson, the author of the Which Wine Guide, and Dermot Daly of Greenall Whitley, about our drinking habits. Commag. Park.
