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[…] into when you did, what was the name of your current affairs? Norman Swallow: Special Enquiry with Robert Reid from Yorkshire. […]
[…] is was new people to do a new type of current affairs he didn’t want any old ideas; he didn’t want […]
[…]hem were journalists who had come in, you know, some of them didn’t have great television or film background. This was new people to do a new type of current affairs he didn’t want any old ideas; he didn’t want any old practices; he didn’t want noddies [ph] and pieces to camera. This was gonna be a […]
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[…] certain people because David Plowright and Barrie Heads formulated a Current Affairs approach to local programming. I mean they were very […]
[…]: And who were the key figures - as this is an oral history project, we'd better record some of the, who were some of the key figures in the News and Current Affairs at that time. R: The principal was Scott Ferguson. I don't know how long he'd been in the role. He had replaced Blair Jenkins, I […]
