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Immigration widows (1984)

An examination of immigration rules and nationalisation laws passed by the Government, which are forcing families apart. Some women are allowed to live here while their husbands are not, and some children...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Sinking of HMS Ardent - Navy wives in Plymouth (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on Navy wives in Plymouth following the sinking of HMS Ardent off the Falkland Islands. Speakers: Navy widow Joan Watkins; Maureen Aldale(?) of the Forces Wives Association. Male reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Margaret Thatcher visits Northern Ireland (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Report on the tour by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Northern Ireland to visit soldiers injured in the Ballykelly and South Omagh bombings. Speakers are Margaret Thatcher; widow Shirley Irwin(?). Eamonn...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Queen Mother’s birthday (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop

Simon Bowden reports on Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s eighty-ninth birthday. Includes bagpipe music; interviews with Grace Crook, Royal Britain Exhibition; Anthony Holden, royal biographer; members...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Death of Ian Gow - Margaret Thatcher visits widow, Jane (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Tribute

Simon Israel reports for IRN from the home of murdered Conservative MP, Ian Gow in Hankham, East Sussex. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been to visit Gow’s widow, Jane. Chairman of Eastbourne...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Preparations for the funeral of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Tribute; Vox pop

Paul Woodley reports on preparations for the funeral service for Jackie Kennedy Onassis today at St Ignatius Loyola Catholic church in New York and her subsequent burial next to her first husband at...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Funeral of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (1994)

Genre

News report; Speech

Paul Woodley reports on the funeral service for Jackie Kennedy Onassis, widow of former President John F. Kennedy, at the St Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church in New York, and her burial beside her first...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Death of Ian Gow - Prime Minister shown car wreckage (1990)

Genre

News report

Simon Israel reports form outside murdered Conservative MP, Ian Gow’s home in Hankham, East Sussex. He details how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent an hour comforting Gow’s wife Jane after being...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Audrey Wheelband on Chalfont St Peter (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Audrey Wheelband, author of A Lost Village, who is 77 years old and has lived in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire her entire life. She is using the proceeds of her book to buy an X-ray...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Funeral service for Jackie Kennedy Onassis (1994)

Genre

News report; Speech

Coverage by Paul Woodley of the funeral service at St Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church in New York of 64 year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis, widow of former US President John F. Kennedy, including extracts of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio