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Shirley Williams on free school meal entitlement (1977)

Genre

Interview

Secretary of State for Education, Shirley Williams, discusses the subject of school meals. The number of free school meals will increase, if people who are eligible decide to claim. Female interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Business Programme No.36 (1989)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- Ministry of Defence. Interview with Lord Trefgarne, Minister of State for Defence Procurement; interviewed by John...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Pre-school vouchers (1995)

Genre

Parliamentary debate; Speech

Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for the new super-Department of Education and Employment, unveils her proposals for pre-school nursery education, including the issuing of vouchers which parents can use...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Royal visit to Australia - School of the Air (1983)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the School of the Air, a school for children living in rural areas of Australia who contact their teachers by CB radio. Speakers: Prince Charles and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Margaret Thatcher talks to Australian children on school radio (1988)

Genre

News report; Speech; Phone-in

Margaret Thatcher is on a visit to Australia. Here she takes questions at Alice Springs over the School of the Air Radio from Australian children (children not heard), which include an enquiry about pets,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Education cuts (1979)

Genre

Interview

Education Secretary Mark Carlisle on the Conservative Government’s plans for education. Talks about the removal of statutory provision of school meals and free transport, and the planned Assisted Places...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Raisa Gorbachev visits UK school (1987)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special; Vox pop

Report on a visit by Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to a school in Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, while visiting the UK en route to the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces)...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

John Nott responds to 1978 Budget (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Conservative Trade Spokesman John Nott, in which he responds to the contents of Chancellor Denis Healey’s 1978 Budget (11/04/78). Despite welcoming tax reductions, he is critical of the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Royal Marines School of Music bombing (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Camilla Affleck reports on the IRA bomb attack on the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent, which killed eleven people and injured twenty (22/09/89) and fears over lax security. Includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Denis Healey’s 1978 Budget speech (1978)

Genre

Speech

Denis Healey’s 1978 Budget speech. He speaks of his time in the post of Chancellor as gruelling, seeing record unemployment and inflation. But now the 7 biggest governments are working together, interest...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio