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This Question of Pressures: 3: The Aluminium Affair

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on BBC Two England

In 1967 the Prime Minister announced the go-ahead for two huge import-saving aluminium smelters in the UK, when three major companies were each already planning one. It was the start of a battle which none of the companies was prepared to lose.
Introduced by John Tidmarsh
With Edmund Dell, MP, Sir Val Duncan, OBE, John Elton, MC, Lord Robens, Ronald E. Utiger, John Biffen, MP, Anthony Howard, David Steel, MP

Contributors

Presenter:
John Tidmarsh
Speaker:
Edmund Dell
Speaker:
Sir Val Duncan
Speaker:
John Elton
Speaker:
Lord Robens
Speaker:
Ronald E. Utiger
Speaker:
John Biffen
Speaker:
Anthony Howard
Speaker:
David Steel
Producer:
John Eidinow
Source: Radio Times

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