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Sunday supplements (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Interviews on newspaper colour supplements with the first editor of the colour supplement of the Sunday Times, Mark Boxer; the new Mail on Sunday colour supplement’s Editor John Lees(?); associate editor...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews Interview: Michael Blackstad, Director of Programming for TVS (1981)

Mike Matthews talks to Michael Blakstad, Director of Programmes at TVS. He was born in Penang, Malaya, in 1940 and was educated first in Australia and then in England. He won a Classical Scholarship to...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Club magazine publishes Jackie Onassis nude photographs (1979)

Genre

Interview

Editor of pornographic Club magazine, Roger Cook on his decision to (re-)publish photographs of former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis sunbathing in the nude on the private island of Skorpios. The photos...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

News on Sunday launch (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Keith Sutton, editor of the News on Sunday, on the first edition of the newspaper and its contents and what make them different. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Richard Ingrams on Private Eye anniversary (1982)

Genre

Interview

Private Eye editor, Richard Ingrams on the twenty-first anniversary of the satirical magazine. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jean Rook dies (1991)

Genre

Tribute

Jean Rook, a top newspaper columnist with the Daily Express, labelled the first lady of Fleet Street, died today after a battle with breast cancer. Rook’s editor Nick Lloyd discusses her long and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Norman Lamont on his first budget (1991)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon and financial editor Douglas Moffitt interview Chancellor Norman Lamont from the radio car outside the Treasury on his first Budget. Topics include cutting the poll tax (community charge); how...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The best of First Edition (1994)

Genre

Interview; Discussion; Advertisement

Clip from Tricia Ingrams’ First Edition programme, on London Newstalk between 7pm and 10pm each weekday evening. In this section talks to John Bryant, Deputy Editor of The Times on the stories in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Barclays bank profits down (1992)

Genre

Interview

IRN financial editor Robin Amlot interviews Barclays bank chairman John Quinton about the report of profits of 51 million pounds – down from 378 million, and on the future for the economy. These are the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Betty Boothroyd elected new Speaker (1992)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the election of Betty Boothroyd as the new Speaker of the House of Commons, first woman in the job. With bid speeches from challenger Peter Brooke and Boothroyd; Boothroyd acceptance speech; Brooke...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio