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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 5/7/1978
Production Date
Wednesday 5/7/1978
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: VTC/6ST/NW7827/5/MR: David Davies, snf, reporting on the continuing campaign by Mrs Peggy Irving and Mrs Rita Garside to retain the birch in the Isle of Man. Inc. 16mm film: March by ‘Pro-Birching movement’. BBC Stock. Mute. (David oov)
VTC/6ST/NW7826/7/MR: Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Maurice Fitchett, one of the Leaders of the ‘Manchester Dig’ in Deansgate, about the meaning and importance of the small piece of Roman pottery found in the site. IT could be the earliest ever Christian relic ever found in this country. 3’14’’
STUDIO INTERVIEW: Nick Clarke, snf, talking to County Councillor George Woods, Chairman of the Highways and Transportation Committee, about the draft report presented today to the committee. 2’50’’
On Wednesday 5/7/1978 there were 5 news stories transmitted.
Film Item Number
Description
Duration
(news descriptions are taken directly from BBC's Programme as Broadcast sheets.)
1
Nick Clarke, snf, reporting on the announcement by Plessey Telecommunications that they’re to cut their Merseyside workforce by a further 600 people. Views of the Edge Lane plant, which is the factory involved in the redundancies. BBC Stock. Mute. (Nick oov)
0 mins 30 secs
2
GVs H.R.H. Princess Anne unveiling a plaque at Liverpool Central Libraries New Extension. She then opened a shipbuilding hall at the Birkenhead shipyard of Cammell Lairds. Ward. Mute.
0 mins 30 secs
3
GVs arrival of the first Icelandic trawler to use a port of Fleetwood for nearly thirty years. Hallas. Mute.
0 mins 30 secs
4
David Davies, snf, reporting on ‘A Day in the Life of.... A Wimbledon Umpire’. He spoke to and followed Bill Pickup through the day of the Ladies’ Quarter Finals Day in this year’s Wimbledon Championships. BBC London crew. Commag.
5 mins 53 secs
5
GVs ‘Centrelink’ experiment in Skelmersdale. BBC Stock. Mute. (Nick oov)
