“Seventy years ago, Manchester endured its own Blitz – two nights of bombing by Hitler’s Luftwaffe which left 684 civilians dead, 2,364 wounded and swathes of the city centre in ruins.”
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As the countdown to the 800th anniversary of the sealing the Magna Carta begins, the Guardian's legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch talks to justice secretary Kenneth Clarke on its relevance today.
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My favourite part of this is what he has to say about New Labour. So true...
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I’ve been transferring my audio cassettes to digital. It’s a job I put off for a long time, as there are about 250 of them.
Those that date from 1980 onwards are played in my Tascam Porta05 Ministudio — a multitrack cassette recorder that I bought in 1988.
Tapes from the 1970′s are more tricky. (more…)
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The BBC Archive has put together a terrific page with 30 audio and video recordings about the ‘gay rights’ movement. They span more than 40 years — from 1957 to 2009.
Quite a number are complete programmes that are more than 25 minutes long.
What a great resource.
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