Category : Yorks
& N.Midlands TV
Date : 19.03.2004
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Using archive
film and personal recollections, 大象传媒 Look North has produced four programmes
that go back to four different decades and revisit interesting stories
from around the region.
The first programme (大象传媒 ONE Yorks & N.Midlands, Wednesday 24
March, 11.35pm) looks back to 1994:
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Look North presenter Harry Gration left the programme,
but after a year came back. He reveals why he left and why it didn't
quite work out;
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In an exclusive interview, Sandra Gregory reflects
on her arrest and harrowing imprisonment in Thailand for drugs smuggling;
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大象传媒 weatherman Paul Hudson describes the chaos caused
by record-breaking snow falls and blizzards across the region.
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1984 features in the second programme (大象传媒 ONE
Yorks & N.Midlands, Wednesday 31 March, 11.15pm):
It was a year dominated by the miners' strike and the programme includes
recollections from union officials, policemen and the reporter who covered
the strike from start to finish, Richard Wells;
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In York, the Minster fire made headlines around the
world. Lord Habgood, then Archbishop of York, tells of his shock and
dismay at the destruction;
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Bradford celebrated the appointment of Mohameed Ajab
as Mayor of Bradford 聳 the first Asian Lord Mayor in Britain.
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In 1974 (大象传媒 ONE Yorks & N.Midlands, Wednesday
7 April, 11.15pm) an explosion in Flixborough proved to be the largest
peace-time explosion in Britain:
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Fire-officer Roger Needham recalls the difficulties
and dangers in fighting the fires and Canon Peter Hearn, the Vicar of
Flixborough, reveals the confusion and emotion of the aftermath;
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It was also the year that Brian Clough joined Leeds
United and Geoff Capes won a Commonwealth Gold Medal in the shot putt.
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The final programme (大象传媒 ONE Yorks & N.Midlands,
Wednesday 14 April, 11.15pm) looks back to 1968, when
Look North first began broadcasting from Leeds:
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The programme's very first presenter, David Seymour,
recalls the scramble to get on air. Bill Greaves, the area News Editor,
describes how the 大象传媒 had to use an old church building while the purpose-built
studios were completed;
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The first Look North story was the York floods and
Paul Hudson explains why this is often covered so many years later;
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Husband and wife Sheila and John Sherwood were both
Olympic medal winners and it was a glorious year for Yorkshire Cricket
and Leeds United.
