Alba: 1978

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Stories hitting the headlines with archive footage and the year's chart hits

Experience some of the stories hitting the headlines through the decades with archive footage and chart hits

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Alba: Alba 1970s: Episode 9: 1978

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Episode 9: 1978

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Includes chart hits by The Buzzcocks, Blondie and Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

Relive some of the stories in the headlines during 1978 through archive footage and chart hits. There was a controversial seal cull in Orkney and ambulance drivers went on strike.

Sealladh air na sgeulachdan a bh' anns na naidheachdan ann an 1978 cuide ri taghadh de cheòl na bliadhna. Am measg na thachair: sealgairean Lochlannach air am fasdadh airson na mìltean de ròin a spadadh ann an Arcaibh, fianais an aghaidh obair togail stèisean cumhachd niùclasach ann an Lodainn an Ear agus dràibhearan nan carbadan-eiridinn air stailc. Am measg nan taghaidhean ciùil tha Ever Fallen In Love? le The Buzzcocks, One Way Or Another le Blondie agus Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick le Ian Dury and the Blockheads. 

Experience some of the stories hitting the headlines in 1978 through archive footage and the year's chart hits: a controversial seal cull was instigated in Orkney, demonstrations against the building of a nuclear power plant in East Lothian and ambulance drivers came out on strike. The year's chart hits include Ever Fallen In Love? by The Buzzcocks, One Way Or Another by Blondie and Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

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