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First transatlantic jet service-Movietone report (1987)

Genre

News report; Special

Movietone newsreel report presented by Geoffrey Sumner, on the inaugural transatlantic jet service (prob. 04/10/58).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.54: Programme 54 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 54 Programme 54 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 1 November 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 52, 53, 54. (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 52, 53 and 54.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 58, 59, 60. (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 58, 59 and 60.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Cable & Wireless profits (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on Cable and Wireless doubling its pre-tax profits for 1976-77 to a record £58.2 million (12/10/77); Therese Birch interviews Peter McCunn, Chief Executive.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Massey’s Chop House menu found (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the manager (not identified) of Massey’s Chop House in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London, after recent building works uncovered an original restaurant menu from 1958. The establishment...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Alec Jones MP dies (1983)

Genre

Interview; Tribute

Telephone interview with former Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, James Callaghan, paying tribute to the Rhondda West MP Alec Jones following his death at the age of 58. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev dies (1993)

Genre

Interview; Tribute

John Percival, The Times dance critic pays tribute after the death of ballet legend and his personal friend Rudolf Nureyev in a Paris hospital at the age of 54 (believed to be from AIDS-related illness).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Armed raider kills handyman (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on shooting dead of 54-year-old handyman and gardener Bill Austen during an armed raid on the home of 74-year-old widow Ellen Ditcher. With comment from friend Brenda Croucher. Female reporter not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Aboard first regular transatlantic flight (1958) (1987)

Genre

Interview

Archive 1958 recording. Chairman of BOAC Sir Gerard d’Erlanger is interviewed aboard the BOAC Comet 4 jet liner on its maiden transatlantic regular passenger flight (04/10/58) before landing in Idlewild...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio