from BBC Radio Oxford: 'Linger Awhile' programme no. 36, 30th May 1976
| Interview with Elizabeth Tossell about William Morris (Lord Nuffield) and his first car and factory |
2 min : 53 sec |
from BBC Radio Oxford 'Carmakers' programme no. 1
| Lord Nuffield and Alfred Keen - apprenticeship and early days |
4 min : 16 sec |
from BBC Radio Oxford 'Carmakers' programme no. 7, late 1970s
| Cliff Edmunds describes work on the tracks in QT Block (South Works, assembling the Morris Marina |
4 min : 33 sec |
| Mrs Pat Fudge ('Trim Ladies') talks about the manufacture of trim and seats |
3 min : 44 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, 2nd May 1975
| Speech by and interview with Margaret Thatcher re British Leyland |
6 min : 16 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, 27th April 1976
| Reg Parsons, TGWU senior shop steward, on the one-day clocking-out strike by British Leyland assembly plant workers |
3 min : 30 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, March 1977
| Sarah Fuller of BBC Radio Oxford asks John Power, AUEW district president, what he thinks of BL's order to the strikers to return to work or lose their jobs |
2 min : 47 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, ca. 1977-8
| Interview with Peter Jewson, marketing director, who talks about the Morris Minor car and why they are sought after today. Interview with Ian Elliot, product manager, who explains why they stopped making them |
4 min : 45 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, 26th October (MT2251) and 16th November (MT2255) 1977
| Victor Keegan and Graham Turner commenting on the appointment of Michael Edwardes as new Chairman of British Leyland |
4 min : 21 sec |
| Interview with Michael Edwardes on his appointment as new Chairman of British Leyland |
2 min : 09 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, 9th December 1977
| Reaction of Reg Parsons to losing his position as TGWU Senior Steward to the left wing Bobbie Fryer. Also Parson's reaction to the appointment of Alan Thornett as an elected Deputy. |
4 min : 00 sec |
BBC Radio Oxford, 17th April 1994: reflections on work in the Oxford motor industry before and after trade union representation
| Interviews with: David Buckle, trade union representative; Arthur Exell; Haydn Evans; Edgar Vines; Gladys Mitchell;
Sidney Shayler; Eileen Hayes; John Power; Glyn Newlands, Morris Motors Brass Band |
3 min : 06 sec |
Extract from BBC Radio Oxford programme, 10th October 1877, 'The Guvnor', celebrating the life and work of William Morris, Lord Nuffield on the centenary of his birth
| Interview with George Weeks, one of the founder members of the Morris Band Motors Silver Band |
2 min : 00 sec |
Extracts from BBC Radio Oxford special broadcast on the proposed bid by British Aerospace to take over the Rover Group, 2nd March 1988
| Introduction |
0 min : 37 sec |
| Commentary from former General Secretary for Transport and General Workers Union, David Buckle |
2 min : 47 sec |
| BBC reporter Gargi Patel talks to un-named employees of the Rover car plant in Cowley as they finish their shift at 4pm |
2 min : 33 sec |
| Commentary from Labour MP for Oxford East, Andrew Smith |
3 min : 04 sec |
'Special' BBC Radio Oxford report on the Rover Group announcement that it intends to close the South plant of the Cowley car factory, with the loss of 4,000 jobs. Peter Smith interviews, 18th July 1988
| Graham Day, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Rover Group, talks about the job losses, redundancies, attrition, and that the losses were nothing to do with the company's take over of British Aerospace |
3 min : 53 sec |
| Ivor Braggins, convener and union representative, believes the closure of the South plant will put car production in jeopardy |
2 min : 44 sec |
| Reporter, Nicola Davies, presents a brief history of Morris Motors |
3 min : 16 sec |
| John Glasson, an expert on the local economy from Oxford Polytechnic, talks about the changes affecting three groups in Oxford |
4 min : 16 sec |