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Cape to Cape explorers return to UK (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Jackie Ford reports on the end of the Cape to Cape expedition undertaken by a UK team of explorers who travelled 22,000 miles in an old fire engine from the Arctic circle to the southern-most tip of Africa....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Autistic son given overdose (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Angus Moorat reports from Reading Crown Court where a housewife from Berkshire has been describing how she tried to kill her autistic son. Judith Jones went through a catalogue of personal tragedy last...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

A closer look at the Lester Chapman Inquiry (1979)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the inquiry into the death of missing schoolboy Lester Chapman, whose body was found in a ditch. Includes comment from Sir Anthony Durant, who does not think the tragedy could have been avoided;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Family member of Kings Cross fire victims (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Valerie Cottle about the death of her sister-in-law, Susheila Cottle, and nephew Dean in the King’s Cross Underground fire (18/11/87). Dean and Susheila had been returning home from a visit...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

News report about the assassination of Airey Neave MP (1979)

Airey Neave, a conservative MP, was the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, during the govern of Margaret Thatcher. The House of Commons is very schocked by the news of his assassination today. Michael...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Lockerbie bombing defence lawyer on accused (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Alistair Duff, lawyer for the two Libyan men, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, accused of carrying out the bombing of a Pan Am jet over the Scottish town of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

North Sea oil offshore safety (1990)

Genre

Interview

As the fifth 24-hour stoppage in 17 days hits Britain’s North Sea oil industry this morning, relatives and survivors of the 1988 Piper Alpha tragedy have been expressing their support for the striking...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Safety measures for Clyde fishermen follow tragedy (1990)

Genre

Interview

Local MP George Foulkes on new measures to improve marine safety in the Firth of Clyde following deaths of several fishermen when the submarine HMS Trenchant pulled down the fishing vessel Antares. He...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

US reaction to Lockerbie bombing inquiry outcome (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified American male spokesman, responding to an official fatal accident inquiry into the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie killing 270 people on 21/12/88. Inquiry...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Paul Channon on rail strike (1989)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Paul Channon, Transport Secretary, who says the announcement of British Rail’s record three hundred million-pound profit does not mean that the wage demands of the striking rail workers can...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio