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Paula Milne on her Down’s Syndrome book (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with screenwriter Paula Milne about her new book (and television play) called John David which focuses on a child with Down’s Syndrome. The book is partly based on Milne’s own experience of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Enable The Disabled Week - nd [1981]

International Year of the Disabled People - 1981. This programme is to help everybody to understand better this issue. Interviews with some disabled persons talking about their problems, one mother of a girl...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

A Sensitive time (1985)

In the wake of the Louise Brown case, Clare Hastings looks at the situation parents of ‘Down’s Syndrome’ babies face. Many parents react to the birth of a handicapped child by perceiving the ‘loss’ of...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Jo Richardson on tampons and toxic shock syndrome (1990)

Genre

Interview

Following concerns about the link between tampon use and Toxic Shock Syndrome, Labour Minister for Women, Jo Richardson on the potentially fatal illness, the likelihood that high-absorbency tampons are most...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Down Syndrome baby murder (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Report on the murder of Down’s Syndrome baby Louise Brown following the arrest of mother Susan Pullen, father Paul Brown and the baby’s uncle and aunt Ian Brown and Brenda Brown. With archive comment...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gulf War Syndrome (1995)

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News report; Speech

Paul Maurice reports on evidence given by military veterans to a House of Commons Defence Committee regarding Gulf War Syndrome – all had been given inoculations by the Ministry of Defence which they...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Doctor tried for Down syndrome baby murder (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the clearing of Doctor Leonard Arthur of the attempted murder of Down syndrome baby, John Pearson. With comment on the ethics of allowing handicapped babies to die from paediatrician, Professor...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gulf War Syndrome (1996)

Genre

Interview

Jeff Collins interviews Robert Lake, a soldier who suffers from Gulf war Syndrome. He describes the symptoms, cause, and the reason he had to travel to America to receive a diagnosis and treatment advice and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sick building syndrome (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Lizzie Knight reports on sick building syndrome and speaks to experts at a conference on health in the workplace, including engineers Ewan McGregor and Max Fordham(?).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy (1993)

Genre

Interview

James Bays interviews Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy expert Roy Meadow following the revelation that an auxiliary nurse suffering from the illness was suspended from St. James’s Hospital in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio