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What to do in an emergency: 20 features [Features 14 to 20] (1986)

aka: Readers’ Digest Book on Emergencies

Twenty features which explain how to react to, and prevent, many emergencies which occur in everyday life - from accidents in water, in the home and on the road, to crime prevention. These are taken from the...

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Heroin: the killing of Christopher (1985)

This programme tells the story of how a young heroin addict was found dead in a bed-sit from an overdose of a drug that was so powerful it killed him within seconds. It also examines the efforts being made...

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A Portrait of Jane Austen: Lord David Cecil in conversation with Sean Street (1985)

Sean Street talks to Lord David Cecil, President of the Jane Austen Society and one of the top scholars and experts on the writer. In this programme, one of Lord Cecil’s rare interviews, he talks about the...

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What to do in an emergency: 20 features [Features 1 to 13] (1986)

aka: Readers’ Digest Book on Emergencies

Twenty features which explain how to react to or prevent, many emergencies which occur in everyday life - from accidents in water, in the home and on the road, to crime prevention. These are taken from the...

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The Boat people: a new home and a new life (1986)

Glen Oglaza looks at the fate of the Vietnamese boat people who, after being forced to leave their own country in the most hazardous conditions, made their way here. Most arrived between 1979 and 1981, but...

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Silverstone: the end of an era (1986)

This programme is particularly topical as the Silverstone Circuit has been awarded the Formula One British Grand Prix for the next five years commencing 1987. Jimmy Brown retired last year (1985) as Managing...

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All kinds of loving: Drama (1985)

A serial of programmes ‘All kinds of loving’. This CD contains 2 radio plays drama: 1) ‘So Little Time’, by John Harding. A solicitor reveals to a young couple, unknown to each other, that they have been...

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They stole a train (1988)

On 8th August 1963, fifteen men robbed the night mail train from Glasgow to London. They stole two and a half million pounds. The crime was dubbed the ‘Great Train Robbery’. This documentary traces the...

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Thoughts for the day (Tape 2) (1989)

aka: Peter Kerridge and you

Extracts from 20 songs, which provide the framework for thoughts on moral, ethical and philosophical issues. The songs are: 1) David Bowie ‘Heroes’; 2) The Housemartins ‘Caravan of Love’; 3) Bonnie Tyler...

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