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Boy being airlifted to Australia pending donor surgery (1977)

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Interview

Interview with Shirley Nolan, mother of Anthony Nolan, who has spent a long period in isolation in hospital and who is being airlifted out of Britain to spend the summer in Australia with his uncle whilst a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Coal industry to be privatised (1993)

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Interview

Interview with Energy Minister Tim Eggar on the planned privatisation of the coal industry, Labour shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Robin Cook’s concerns over health and safety standards under private...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ken Livingstone on GLC abolition vote defeat (1984)

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Interview

Interview with leader of the Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone on the impact the House of Lords vote to save GLC elections, will have on the Conservative’s plans to abolish the authority, and on the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Reading University and the NUS (1980)

60 Minutes 210 News: A national campaign by the University of Reading students launch to pull out the NUS [National University Students]. It is money that students can save in benefit of welfare departments...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Stopping the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapsing (1993)

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Interview

David Kermode interviews Professor John Burland from London’s Imperial College on the efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling over, the dangers facing the tower, how they want to keep some...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Film archive gets grant (1982)

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Interview

Interview with a spokesman for the British Film Institute (BFI) on the allocation of a 100,000 pounds budget from the National Heritage Memorial Fund to help save rare copies of decaying nitrate stock in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Government NHS proposals for private contractors in hospitals (1983)

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Interview

David Williams, General Secretary of the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE), following Social Services Minister Norman Fowler’s House of Commons statement on Government proposals for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kurt Waldheim asks Americans to remain calm in face of hostage crisis (1979)

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Press conference

Secretary General of the UN, Kurt Waldheim speaks out on the more than 60 American hostages being held in Iran. The USA is using every available channel to secure release. He asks for Americans to continue...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pit closures inquiry (1993)

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Interview

Chairman of British Coal Neil Clarke on the Trade and Industry Select Committee report into the government’s coal mine closure programme, which recommends a five year government subsidy to save some of the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Reading University student stabbed (1980)

An interview with the student from Reading University who was stabbed. He talks about his experience trying to save a girl that was probably being raped and instead he was stabbed. He ran to ask for...

ILR South Radio Online Audio