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New Cross fire inquest (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Tim Crook reports on an inquest into a fire in New Cross, South London, on 18/01/81 where 13 young black people died during a birthday party. The jury returned an open verdict but the victims’ relatives...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Penlee lifeboat disaster - Funeral of Charles Greenhaugh and his mother (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the double funeral of Charles Greenhaugh, who died in the Penlee lifeboat disaster (19/12/81), and his mother, who died of shock upon hearing the news. Tomorrow, crew member John Blewett will be...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Focus: John R R Tolkien - Maker of Middle Earth 28 Sept [1975-1986]

A study of the personality and work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, best seller and the Maker or Middle Earth. He was born in South Africa on the 3rd of January of 1892,...

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David Starkey’s Monarchy - The Windsors (2009)

Subject

History

Dr David Starkey concludes his epic story of the British monarchy with a special programme on the history of the House of Windsor. Far from being stuck in the past, the story of the monarchy in the 20th...

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News at Ten bulletin (1981)

Genre

Advertisement; Interview; News bulletin; News report; Speech

ITN News At Ten bulletin for 19/03/81. Includes reports on the Yorkshire and Tyne-Tees television franchises, US-Soviet relations, religion, an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, and the release of a book...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Genius of Britain, The (5 Parts) (2010)

Subject

History; Science; Technology

Britain may only be a small island, but its great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world: from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web to the discovery...

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Rugby Centenary Match

Date released

8 Oct 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2157A

NoS ID

028526

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rugby Centenary Match. DESCRIPTION: Combined England-Wales and Scotland-Ireland teams in a specially arranged Rugby Match to celebrate the centenary of the Sport. England and Wales look...

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Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story (2010)

Subject

Economics

Film maker Martin Durkin explains the full extent of the financial mess we are in: an estimated £4.8 trillion of national debt and counting. It’s so big that even if every home in the UK was sold it...

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TV Eye - The Atlanta killings (1981)

Genre

Documentary; News report; Interview; Vox pop

Recording of ITV (Thames Television) TV Eye current affairs programme broadcast on 19/03/81. Entitled, The Atlanta Killings, and presented by Denis Tuohy, the programme examines the search for bodies in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Voices from the Killing Fields (2011)

Subject

Geography; History; Politics & government

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Investigative journalist Thet Sambath spent a decade gaining the trust of the...

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