@misc{
   title = {Series: In Touch},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {20 minutes},
   month = {Tuesdays 21.10pm},
   abstract = {The special weekly programme for the visually handicapped with a round-up of news of interest to the blind and partially sighted.},
   year = {1974}
}

@misc{
   title = {The Week's Good Cause: transplantation research},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {5 minutes},
   month = {Sunday 8.50am},
   abstract = {In 1980 Lady McIndoe appeals on behalf of the East Grinstead Research Trust which carries out transplantation research in burns and plastic surgery, the grafting of corneas and tissues including successful digital restoration by microvascular surgery.},
   keywords = {charity},
   year = {1980}
}

@misc{
   title = {Series: Mirrors of Health and Sickness},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {20 minutes x 3 programmes},
   month = {20.15},
   note = {20 mins x 3 programmes},
   abstract = {Three programmes in which Roy Porter, Senior Lecturer in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute, views some contemporary medical problems in the mirror of history.},
   year = {1985}
}

@misc{
   title = {You and Yours survey on health care},
   publisher = {BBC},
   month = {20 April 1989},
   abstract = {Chris Hawksworth and experts respond to people’s views about today’s You and Yours survey on health care.  Your and Yours is a long running series on consumer affairs, inviting listeners to phone in with questions, comments and experiences.},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   title = {Series: In Business},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {25 - 30 minutes},
   month = {20.15},
   abstract = {The series presents news, views and stories from the business world and reflects innovation, enterprise and initiative in the world of British and overseas business.},
   year = {sampled in 1985}
}

@misc{
   author = {Cohen, Deboarh},
   title = {The Opiate of the Masses},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {45 minutes},
   month = {Tuesday 19.20},
   abstract = {Why should there be a factory making powerful pain-killing drugs inside our heads? Since the discovery in 1975 that natural counterparts to morphine and other opiate drugs exist in the brain there has been much speculation about their role in the body.  It has been suggested that they may be involved in the suppression of pain, the control of emotion and even the regulation of body fat.  Geoff Watts examines these and other theories that try to explain our natural opium dens.},
   year = {1980}
}

@misc{
   author = {Forsyth, John},
   title = {The Changing Art of the Political Interview},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes},
   abstract = {The balance of power in the political interview has swung from politician to journalist and back again since the early days of broadcasting.  David Walter traces its evolution.},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Gallagher, Jock},
   title = {Series: Barriers (on class)},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   month = {6 January 1980; Sunday 18.15pm},
   abstract = {Six programmes which try to define class.  Graham Turner examines some contemporary attitudes to see where the barriers stand and how they affect our performance in social and economic terms.},
   year = {1980}
}

@misc{
   author = {Gallagher, Jock},
   title = {The Doctor's View},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes x 2 programmes},
   month = {21 June 1989},
   abstract = {A two part inquiry into the growing number of claims for medical negligence.  Marjorie Lofthouse considers the impact on doctors and how it might affect their relationships with patients},
   keywords = {medical negligence},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Goldman, Martin},
   title = {Nature's Own Contraceptive},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {45 minutes},
   month = {29 April 1980 19.20},
   abstract = {Millions of women now regularly use the pill-but is it the ideal long-term contraceptive?

Roger Short runs the Mrc Reproductive Biology Unit in Edinburgh, and thinks that the legend that breast-feeding prevent pregnancies is in fact true, and that by studying this nature’s own contraceptive, we may discover better methods of birth control.},
   keywords = {Breast feeding: contraception},
   year = {1980}
}

@misc{
   author = {Hatwood, Joy},
   title = {Series: Ray Gosling-In the House of...},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {25 minutes x 4 programmes},
   month = {19.20},
   year = {1985}
}

@misc{
   author = {Hatwood, Joy},
   title = {Series: Market Forces},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes x 4 programmes},
   month = {9 February 1989},
   note = {30mins X 4 programmes},
   abstract = {Britain’s armies of marketing men and women have been advancing at the double during the 1980s.  Their combined operations now expand over ten billion pounds a year and they’re on active service in every sector.  In a series of four programmes, Jenny Cuffe invites them to disclose their tactics and asks what they supply at whose demand.},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Hush, Gillian},
   title = {Series: Northern Lights},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {25 minutes x 6 programmes},
   month = {3 March 1989},
   abstract = {In the first of the programmes, Phil Smith makes an initial foray into the Lancashire milltown of Colne to see the world through the eyes and experience of its townspeople.  He begins in the auction saleroom with its box-lots of memories.},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Lofthouse, Marjorie},
   title = {The Long Sleep},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes},
   abstract = {Last summer Rosie Johnson was severely injured in a car accident and suffered brain damage.  For seven months she lay in a coma while her parents waited by her bedside hoping for some response.  Barbara Myers tells the story of the past year.},
   keywords = {coma: brain damage},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Mardall, Liz for the Woman's Hour unit and Hill, Margaret and Zerdin, Dan for the World Service},
   title = {Margaret Thatcher answers questions},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {50 minutes},
   month = {28 April 1985 12.10},
   abstract = {The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP: British Prime Minister since 1979 and now one of the most experienced leaders in the West, Mrs Thatcher answers questions from around the world in an international phone-in chaired by Sue MacGregor and broadcast simultaneously with the BBC World Service},
   keywords = {Margaret Thatcher},
   year = {1985}
}

@misc{
   author = {Monson, Jolyon and Easterman, Max},
   title = {Series: The Thatcher Decade},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {40 minutes x 3 programmes},
   month = {Tuesdays 19.20},
   abstract = {Three programmes about a record-breaking hold on power.},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Paterson, David and Deehan, Geoff and Cohen, Deborah},
   title = {Medicine Now},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {28 minutes},
   month = {Tuesdays 10.20 am},
   note = {sampled in 1980: 1985: 1989},
   abstract = {Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.},
   year = {sampled in 1980}
}

@misc{
   author = {Pease, Marlene},
   title = {AIDS: Who Will Care?},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {25 minutes},
   month = {20 April1989 21.20},
   abstract = {Care for people with AIDS in Britain is largely hospital-based but, as cases increase, care in the community may be the answer. 
 
Kati Whitaker presents a special report on work being done in Edinburgh and London.
Does he take sugar? deals with issues of disability.},
   keywords = {Aids: care in the community},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Purslow, Louise and Watson, Kathy},
   title = {Series: After Dread and Anger},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {45 minutes},
   month = {20.30pm},
   note = {45mins X 6 programmes},
   abstract = {Series of six documentaries presented by Ferdinand Dennis, people of African ancestry describe their experience of today’s Britain.},
   keywords = {black Britons:},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Rowlands, Sarah},
   title = {Ellison Street Revisited},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes},
   month = {8.30pm},
   abstract = {In 1956 Gordon Cooper was among the youngsters at Ellison Street Junior School photographed after passing after their 11-plus exam.  This year they will be 40, having lived their lives in the welfare state introduced by the 1945 Labour Government.  What effects did the social, cultural and economic changes of the 60s and 70s have on their attitudes, actions and beliefs?},
   keywords = {welfare state:},
   year = {1985}
}

@misc{
   author = {Sims, Davy},
   title = {Series: The Radio 4 Generation},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {20 minutes x 6 programmes},
   note = {20 mins x 6 programmes},
   abstract = {A series of programmes in which members of the 'Radio 4 Generation' talk about changes in their lives since the project began.  Radio 4 took over from the Home Service on 30 September 1967},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Sloman, Anne},
   title = {Series: The Thatcher Phenomenon},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes x 6 programmes},
   month = {5 May-9 June 1985 19.30pm},
   note = {The transcripts of this series were published as a book: Hugo Young and Anne Sloman (eds) The Thatcher Phenomenon BBC 1986.},
   abstract = {Six programmes in which Hugo Young assesses the personal influence of Margaret Thatcher on the life of Britain and the world, with witnesses ranging from American President Ronald Reagan through Cabinet colleagues past and present to officials who have worked with her and opponents who are dedicated to unseating her.},
   year = {1985}
}

@misc{
   author = {Smith, Anthony},
   title = {Merthyr Tydfil},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {40 minutes},
   month = {14 May 1989},
   abstract = {Entertainer Max Boyce visits Merthyr Tydfil near his home in South Wales.  The town was once known as the iron capital of the 80,000 world, with population of 80,000-bigger than Cardiff, Swansea and Newport combined-but times have changed.},
   year = {1989}
}

@misc{
   author = {Webb, Jeremy},
   title = {Blueprints of Disease},
   publisher = {BBC Radio 4},
   month = {17 January 1985 11.00am},
   abstract = {Every feature of the human body is governed by the genes passed from parent to child.  To fashion an entire individual takes millions of them.  But sometimes, just one faulty gene can cause a severe disease such as haemophilia or cystic fibrosis.  Up to now, all that could be offered was relief of symptoms.  Now scientists can identify the roots of some of these disorders: the faults in the genes themselves.  Colin Tudge examines this recent medical advance which has opened up new possibilities for treatment and early prenatal diagnosis.},
   keywords = {genetic disorders},
   year = {1985}
}

@misc{
   author = {Wood, Jane},
   title = {Series: Alternative Medicine},
   publisher = {Radio 4},
   pages = {30 minutes},
   month = {September 1980; Fridays 16.10},
   note = {6 programmes},
   abstract = {Series of 6 programmes. Despite the innovation in drugs and surgery seen this century, unorthodox therapies are becoming more popular.  Their practitioners claim that they offer an effective alternative to orthodox medicine.  But have these claims ever been scientifically examined?},
   keywords = {alternative medicine},
   year = {1980}
}