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Suspected Soviet spy off Sweden (1982)

Genre

Interview

Swedish Naval Commander Sven Carlsson on the presence of a suspected Soviet spy submarine off Musko Island, Sweden’s most important naval base. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rear Admiral Sir Raymond Lie-Go talks about military operations (1982)

Rear Admiral Sir Raymond Lie-Go with Barney Jones after the taking of South Georgia on how the task force is equipped to cope with the South Atlantic. One of Britain’s most distinguished former naval...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Short story (1986)

aka: The Naval Treaty [Part 2]

A 5 part short story - drama for radio. ‘The Naval Treaty’ read by Hamish Wilson and written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This CD contains Part 4 and 5 of this story. To know Part 1, 2 and 3, see C1000/181/86/1

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Soviets expel British naval attache (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the expulsion from Russia of British Naval attache Captain Bruce Richardson on suspicion of spying on the Soviet Union. Includes interviews with Captain Richardson, wife Anique(?) Richardson and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gulf War progress (1991)

Genre

Press conference

Military spokesman, Group Captain Niall Irving, holds a press conference about the progress of the British effort in the Gulf war against Iraq. He reports on the naval operation to capture three Iraqi...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Royal Naval College closure (1995)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Lord Lewin of Greenwich (Terence Lewin) following the threat to the future of the Royal Naval College building at Greenwich after the announcement of its closure. The most likely option would...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sale of Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Brian Ging reports on the sale of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, London; interviews with John McWilliam, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Greenwich University; Pieter Van der Merwe, Greenwich Maritime Museum.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fight to keep Rosyth naval base open (1994)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified Scottish male MP (poss. Gordon Brown, Labour MP for Dunfermline East?), on the future of the Rosyth naval base. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Naval attache expelled from Moscow (1989)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Press interview with British naval attache, Captain Christopher Mayer, following his expulsion from the Soviet Union on spying charges. Eleven British diplomats and journalists were deported in a tit-for-tat...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

American naval presence in Gulf (1984)

Genre

Speech

US Secretary of State Caspar Weinberger on the US Naval presence around the Gulf and how long it will remain there following attacks on unarmed ships.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio