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ITV/ITN opening broadcast and news bulletin (1980)

Genre

News bulletin; Special

Recording of the opening moments of ITV and ITN (22/09/55) featuring a news bulletin presented by Christopher Chataway. The other speakers are not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

First TV advertisement - Gibbs SR toothpaste (1987)

Genre

Advertisement; Special

Recording of the first television advertisement in the UK - for Gibbs SR toothpaste - broadcast at 20:12 pm on 22/09/55 during ITV’s opening night. The voice-over is by Alex MacIntosh. Audio quality very...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Hound of The Baskervilles [Episode 18, 18 and 19] (1987)

A complete novel of Sherlock Holmes. Drama for radio in 28 episodes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Hamish Wilson. This CD is episode 17, 18 and 19. See previous episodes in C1000/112/87/1 to...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Charing Cross Hospital strike (1979)

Genre

Interview

Regional health authority spokesman Vic Ripley, on the dismissal from Charing Cross Hospital of 2 staff members who refused to change an air filter as they were working to rule. 55 staff members then walked...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Woman found dead in Southwark home (1994)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Press conference by or interview with Detective Superintendent David Reeve about the murder of 55 year-old Elaine Warman, who was found dead in her flat on Wyndham Road, Camberwell, London. She had suffered...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Frances Morrell on ILEA cuts (1986)

Genre

Interview

Inner London Education Authority leader Frances Morrell expresses incredulity at Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph’s refusal of a last-minute appeal for more money. ILEA now faces cuts of 55 million...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Car bomb in Newry kills 2 (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on a car bomb explosion in County Down, Northern Ireland which killed a policeman and a security guard outside Newry courthouse. With comment from Jim Nicholson (UUP). Male reporter not identified....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bradford City stadium fire, 1985 (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

2 archive clips. On the last Saturday of the 1984-85 season, at Valley Parade, Bradford, 55 football fans died and over 200 were injured when flames burned their way along the wooden floorboards of the main...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mining leaders on age of retirement (1977)

Genre

News report; Interview

Coal Board Chairman, Sir Derek Ezra on the debate over early retirement for miners. Ezra says that workers under ground will be included but that the Coal Board cannot include above ground workers in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fishermen are jailed following massive cocaine haul (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a Scottish male police or customs spokesman (not identified) on the undercover drugs haul operation, following the conviction of 3 fishermen jailed for a total of 55 years for smuggling...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio