Results

Punch magazine to fold (1992)

Genre

Interview

Editor of Punch magazine, David Thomas, talks to Helen Costello about the failure of the magazine which is to fold after 150 years. He is blaming the recession.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Story of West Side Story, told by Adrian Scott (1988)

In our final musical this week, we find ourselves in New York. The show is WEST SIDE STORY, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Here is Adrian Scott to put you in the picture......

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Punch magazine to fold (1992)

Genre

Interview

Editor of Private Eye magazine, Ian Hislop, tells Stephanie West why he believes nobody will miss Punch magazine when it closes after 150 years.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Punch magazine in trouble due to dwindling sales (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Satirical magazine, Punch is attempting to update its image and boost sales. Sweeping moves at the 147 year -old magazine have seen three editors leave, sales slump, and staff morale plummet. But insiders...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Paul Gascoigne in dispute over photo (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report

Lizzie Knight reports on police investigations into an incident at the Punch and Judy pub in Covent Garden in central London involving the footballer Paul Gascoigne and his bodyguard. Although detectives...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hayes on Sunday (1978)

Genre

Interview

Hayes on Sunday. Brian Hayes revisits his week’s shows and interviews with: Sir Richard Marsh chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and former head of British Rail on his recent autobiography...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Dilys Powell on films through the years (1988)

Genre

Interview

Veteran film critic, Dilys Powell is 86 today and determined to continue her 40-year career with the Sunday Times and Punch magazine despite recent illness. Nicky Broyd has been talking to her about the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Christmas Day swim in the Serpentine (1981)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

Report from the scene on the Christmas Day tradition of swimming in the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London, despite most of the lido being covered in ice. Includes interviews with Juffy(?), the superintendent...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Chinese dreamers (1986)

Genre

Drama

Chinese Dreamers. A play for radio by Nick McCarty. Lonely widower Charlie, recovering from a heart attack in a seaside town, mourns the loss of his theatrical glory days - then he meets Muriel. With Joss...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Chamber of Horrors: Documentary about Madame Tussaud’s waxworks Museum (1984)

CHAMBER OF HORRORS [Series Radio Victory Archive] A special programme about Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks, produced by Radio Victory for transmission on 23 April 1984. TRACK 1- MATT HOPPER interviews LADY...

ILR South Radio Online Audio