Category : Yorks
& N.Midlands TV
Date : 19.03.2004
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Using archive
film and personal recollections, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Look North has produced four programmes
that go back to four different decades and revisit interesting stories
from around the region.
The first programme (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 – the first Asian Lord Mayor in Britain.
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In 1974 (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
