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Fuel tanker driver strike (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male speaker on the end of the negotiations between unions and employers regarding the money tanker drivers are paid. Male speaker not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New Speaker of the House of Commons - nd [June 1983]

New Speaker of the House of Commons - nd [June 1983] Various cuts. [Box 5]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

A Postcard from Strasbourg: July 1987 (1987)

In another in this series of light political documentaries, Jim Gibbons gives his impression of going-ons within the European Parliament; inluding a retrospective look at the Euro-Summit scuppered by Mrs....

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Political party speaker (1989)

Genre

Speech

Unidentified male, English(?) political speaker, possibly a political leader, gives a speech in which he outlines a great future for his (unspecified) party.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Conference decides not to hear speaker (1979)

Genre

Special; Speech

Conference delegates refuse to let a speaker, Frank (Chapple?), to speak. Possibly TGWU union conference, no further details available. Male speakers not identified.

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

Speaker swears in Parliament (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech

Peter Spencer reports from Westminster on the events that led the Speaker, Bernard Weatherill, to swear in the House of Commons- he is heard but bleeped out.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Foreign prison experience (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview on speaker’s son’s treatment in a foreign jail, the food he was given and treatment by the foreign guards and lack of information and help from the Foreign Office. Male British speaker and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Building society rate increase (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview on speaker’s statement that building societies may use the improved inflow of funds from the forthcoming rate increase to give to investors in order to build up their lost reserves before...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Margaret Thatcher praised for resigning (1990)

Genre

Interview

Margaret Thatcher praised for resigning as this was the best for the Conservative Party and its unity, but the speaker is deeply sad as she was a remarkable Prime Minister. Male speaker not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio