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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Programme Details
Record 1 – 8 of 8 news stories found.
Further details for Look North West: Wednesday 2/11/1983
Production Date
Wednesday 2/11/1983
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 A344D/5:
Colin Philpott, snf, talking to Derek Spickernell, Director General of British Standard’s Institute about the Government’s decision to help small firms improve the quality of their goods by distributing 20 million pounds among them. 02m48s
VT 1/RNW A344D/6:
Extract of Tom McNally’s attempt to cross the Atlantic in the smallest boat which ended in failure. Ex. Southampton TK. (Stuart oov) 01m30s
STUDIO:
Julie Carter, snf, reporting on a Government report which states that a train driver was responsible for a crash in which he and his colleague were killed just outside Crewe Station. 01m09s
On Wednesday 2/11/1983 there were 8 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
NEWSFILMS NOT TRANSMITTED: 2ND NOVEMBER 1983:
0 mins 0 secs
Film of Plessey factory. Mute. BBC Stock.
0 mins 0 secs
Film of Foden’s Trucks of Sandbach. Mute. BBC Stock.
0 mins 0 secs
Film of a fire at Offerton High School. Mute. Oldham.
0 mins 0 secs
1
Martin Henfield, snf, reporting on a revolutionary bus which went on show in Manchester, its designed to cut energy costs and reduce the level of pollution. Sepmag. Park.
3 mins 15 secs
2
Julie Carter, snf, reporting on a visit by the Minister for Coal, Giles Shaw, to the Parsonage & Bickershaw Colliery in Leigh, who assured the miners that pits certainly wil not be sold off. Sepmag. Stephens.
3 mins 01 secs
3
Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on the continuing dispute at Shell Oil at Stanlow over the enforcement of the secondary picket laws. Sepmag. Stephens.
02 mins 12 secs
4
Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on a 200 million pound grant to Vickers Shipyard in Barrow to build a huge hall to construct up to four nuclear submarines at a time. Mute. Oldham.
