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Soviets ready to conform for aid (1991)

Genre

Speech

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks (through an interpreter) at the Congress of Peoples Deputies and claims the republics need to form a charter in order to recieve food and economic aid from the West.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Swot Spot: 5 days of advice for GCSE students - nd [1975-1986]

Revision and study aid programmes for GCSE students. Day 1- An interview with Roger Murphy, a Lecturer. He talks about exams. Day 2- Margareth Ralph talks about planning your time up leading up to the exam....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Garth Hewitt talking to Simon Cummings (1985)

While the live Aid concert was being beamed around the world, Christian rock musician Garth Hewitt was in Africa finding out for himself about the effects of famine. It was in fact a Garth Hewitt song which...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

EU aid to Africa (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the distribution of foreign aid from the EU, and the organisational reforms which must take place to ensure the African people in need receive the aid quickly. Female British speaker and male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lord Mackay on legal aid reform (1989)

Genre

Interview

The Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay (James Mackay) talks about changes in the legal aid system allowing children to receive legal aid in their own right and previous instances where children have not been...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Aid appeal for Rwandans hit by civil war (1994)

Genre

Interview

Christian Aid field worker Tim Cole on the urgency of the appeal launched today by Britain’s leading aid agencies for the victims of the civil war in Rwanda before problems escalate, and the need to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Aid drops for Kurds (1991)

Genre

News report

Dan Damon reports from the Iraq-Turkey border on the plight of the Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and the aid the British government is dropping for them.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

UN and Somalia in row over food aid (1986)

Genre

Interview

A row has erupted between the United Nations and the Somalian Government over money for food aid. The UN’s Michael Barton claims the refugees are being used as pawns and downplays the situation. Male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bob Geldof on Live Aid (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with musician and fundraiser Bob Geldof, on receiving eleven million pounds from the Live Aid charity concerts which he helped to organise. The proceeds are intended to ease the humanitarian crisis...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Foreign aid from EC (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unnamed British minister following an EC meeting where she called for additional aid for Africa from the other members (UK has already committed funds); and on the impact the instability of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio