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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 4 of 4 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Thursday 30/4/1981
Production Date
Thursday 30/4/1981
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 A117J/3:
Debi Davies, snf, reporting on the plan to reduce the number of Liverpool Dockers. Incl. 16mm film. Commag. BBC stock. (Debi oov) 18’, 0’28” TOTAL VT DUR: 0’44”
RNW A117J/31:
Malcolm Balen, snf, talking to Hesketh Bank farmer John Sephton about his objections to a Dutch marketing drive to try to capture a bigger share of the British vegetable market. 4’10”
RNW A117J/30:
Stuart Hall reporting from Accrington and Rossendale College, where catering students have won through to the final of a national competition to create a meal to serve to 100 distinguished foreign guests. He spoke to tutor Graham Wilkinson and some of the students. 6’22”
2-WAY INTERVIEW, NORMAN-SHAW-NORTH:
David Davies, snf, talking to Nicholas Winterton, the Conservative MP for Macclesfield, who led a revolt against the budget increase in petrol prices in the Commons. 3’28”
On Thursday 30/4/1981 there were 4 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Film of the police hunt following a wages snatch on Merseyside. Mute. Ward. (John oov)
0 mins 18 secs
2
Film of a petition over proposed cuts in bus services being handed in to the GMC. Mute. Park (John oov)
0 mins 23 secs
3
Film of a news conference in Liverpool about the People’s March to London. Mute. Ward. (John oov)
0 mins 23 secs
4
Malcolm Balen, snf, talking to John Pilling, the Chairman of Makins of Rochdale, who have designed and built a new organ for Ripon Cathedral. Sepmag. Stephens/Leeds crew. (Music details over)
