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Roy Marsden on Adam Dalgliesh - A Taste for Death (1988)

Genre

Interview

Roy Marsden returns to our screens as Adam Dalgliesh in the adaptation of P.D. James’s latest book, A Taste for Death. He speaks to Carol Allen about Phyllis Dorothy James, his dissatisfaction with the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Focus: Richard Jefferies - Field and Hedgerow (1984)

An adaptation for radio of the last essays of John Richard Jefferies, poet and writer. He was born on the 6th of November of 1848 at Colt, Wiltshire. In 1866 became a journalist. He had a hope to become a...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Bessie (drama) - Episode 3/4 (1984)

The compelling story of battling Bessie Braddock and her husband Jack, who dominated the Liverpool Labour Party for half a century. The story begins with Bessie’s early political education, follows her...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

The Night is young (1989)

Genre

Interview

Gill Pyrah interviews Hollywood actor, Nick Nolte, about his latest film, Farewell to the King. The film is an adaptation of the 1969 novel, L’Adieu au Roi, by Pierre Schoendoerffer, and is based on the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

A Judgement in Stone musical (1992)

Genre

Interview

Sheila Hancock discusses her role as Eunice Parchman in the musical adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone with reference to an earlier role in musical Sweeney Todd. Carol Allen interviews.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Obituary of John Le Mesurier (1983)

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News report; Obituary; Music

Obituary of theatre, film and television actor John Le Mesurier, who has died (15/11/83) aged 71. Le Mesurier is best known for his role as Sergeant Wilson in the television comedy series Dad’s Army....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bread moves from TV to stage (1990)

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Interview

Carla Lane’s television comedy series Bread has transferred to the stage at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. Colin Cree talks to actress Jean Boht on the opportunity for people to see their...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie on Jeeves and Wooster (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, about starring in the upcoming ITV adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels, and their careers both together and apart. Female interviewer not...

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Wapping demonstration turns violent (1986)

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Interview; Music; News report; Vox pop

A report on picket line violence in Wapping. Labour MP, Tony Benn defends the demonstrators’ behaviour, and Brenda Dean of print union SOGAT condemns the behaviour of police. Chief Superintendent Gerry...

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Quentin Crisp on his role in the film Orlando (1993)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon live telephone interview, on her FM Drivetime show, with 84-year-old Quentin Crisp, famously portrayed by John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant, from his Manhattan flat in New York. On his new...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio