 | | | | | |  Inside
Out - West Midlands: Monday October 2, 2006 | | Manufacturing
challenge | Where
next for manufacturing - the new challenge? |
The West
Midlands was once one of the most productive regions in the world. The
Birmingham area alone was home to over 1,000 trades. Eighty per cent of
all the world's chains were made in the Black Country. But today you're
more likely to find signs of West Midlands manufacturing at one the region's thriving
museums than in factories, foundries and warehouses. Simon Topman, president
of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and managing director of whistle company
ACME, takes an in-depth look at the progressive fall in manufacturing in the region. He
talks to Inside Out about his reflections on the region's declining manufacturing
base. Links relating to this story:The
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| Kojak's
Brum | | Who
loves ya? Birmingham gets the Kojak treatment |
Twenty five
years ago cinema audiences across Britain were being treated to a tour of Birmingham
by Hollywood star, Telly Savalas.
But how did a series of beautiful yet
random shots of the city make it onto the silver screen? And what on earth
did it have to do with an actor famous for his role as television detective Kojak?
Inside
Out tells the story of the making of one of the strangest - and most popular -
films ever created in the Midlands. Links relating to this story:The BBC is not responsible
for the content of external websites | Flaming
June | | Flaming
June - Mary Lloyd, artist's muse |
Tucked away in leafy suburbia
lies a story you might not expect to find. In a house in Worcestershire
hangs a painting of a beautiful young woman - all the owners know about the woman
is her name, Mary Lloyd, not who she was.
Ashley Blake goes along with
the family as they try to unlock the story behind the painting. Recent evidence
suggests that Mary Lloyd was in fact the muse for one of Britain's most famous
artists, Lord Leighton.
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