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Raving Looney Green Giant Party conference (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the country’s first Raving Looney Green Giant Party District Councillor Stuart Basil Fawlty Hughes (for Sidmouth), leader of the party, who discusses the wacky policies of his party and their...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.32: Programme 32 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

Ocean Sound This Week, No. 32 Programme 32 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 31 May 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Maastricht vote won by narrow margin (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview

Mark Phillips reports on the House of Commons vote for the Maastricht Treaty, which has been won by a very narrow margin. Contributions from Conservative Party Chairman, Norman Fowler; Labour Foreign Affairs...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Labour victory in Walton by-election (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the Labour Party victory in the Liverpool, Walton by-election, overcoming the Militant Tendency. With reaction from Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock; Editor of Militant newspaper Peter Taaffe;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British schoolchildren in coach crash (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on a coach crash in the South of France in which several schoolchildren from St Albans died. Harry Hughes, the coach driver, had been taken ill at the wheel. John Meeson(?) recounts his son Peter’s...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

D-Day 50 year celebrations launched (1994)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report; Speech

Mark Phillips reports as Prime Minister John Major launches celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Grosvenor Square. There are events planned all over the country. Includes speech...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hillsborough inquiry (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Michael O’Neill reports from Sheffield on the inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster (15/04/89). Includes interview with fan giving evidence, David Hughes, on police slamming shut a gate onto the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

General election - Campaigns continue (1987)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

Report on the 1987 General Election party campaigns; press conferences featuring Environment Minister Nicholas Ridley on housing (29/05/87); Neil Kinnock, Labour leader on pensions; David Owen, SDP leader on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

General election - Campaigns continue (1987)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference; Speech

Report on the 1987 General Election party campaigns and campaign issues after latest poll ratings; interviews/speeches with/by David Owen, SDP leader and Neil Kinnock, Labour leader; press conferences...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Opening of Frankland Prison (1980)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the opening of Frankland Prison in County Durham, 18 months ahead of schedule. The site is being guarded by 450 military personnel instead of prison officers. There are currently just 17 inmates...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio