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Quangos report recommendations (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with researcher Anne Davies on her report, What’s Wong with Quangos?, which recommends greater accountability of the outside political bodies to Parliament. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Firemen’s strike - Army replacements (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male speaker (union representative?) on what the response time will be of the army replacement for the fire service and what people can do to prevent the need for a fire engine...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Oliver Broderick on failure of kidney transplant (1986)

Genre

Interview

Schoolboy, Oliver Broderick, interviewed after the failure of his kidney transplant, talks about who has visited him, what he thinks of all the support people have given, how painful the procedure was, how...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Westland affair - Michael Heseltine on report (1986)

Genre

Interview

After the Westland inquiry, Michael Heseltine describes what happened, and claims he did everything right. He discusses what should happen to Bernard Ingham and Sir Robert Armstrong. Male interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Peking earthquake (1976)

Genre

Interview; News report

Interview with Briton Steven Fitzgerald in which he gives an recount of the earthquake which affected Peking. He recalls what happened, what he thought and felt, and the length of the earthquake. It is not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kray Twins’ associate burgled (1986)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified associate of the Kray Twins, about having had his flat broken into. He talks about what was taken, his own investigations, the involvement of police, and what he thinks of the...

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William Waldegrave on the crisis in Romania (1989)

Genre

Interview

Foreign Office Minister, William Waldegrave accuses the Romanian authorities of covering up the number of deaths of demonstrators in the country. He discusses the British response to this, what Europe is...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pete Waterman inteview (1988)

aka: Now that’s what we call music

Stock, Aitken, Waterman - Now that’s what we call music. Pete Waterman and his partners have changed the face of the Network Chart. A glance down the charts reveals how many came from the ‘Hit Factory’...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Women shot at the University of Montreal (1989)

Genre

Interview

Gareth Furby speaks to Peter Ray, Canadian reporter, who gives his account of what happened at the shooting at the University of Montreal in Canada in which the gunman, an anti-feminist, killed 14 women and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ranulph Fiennes on his attempt to walk to the North Pole (1989)

Genre

Interview

Veteran explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes speaks at Heathrow Airport to Alex Walker as he prepares to leave for a third attempt to walk to the North Pole unsupported, the only Polar record left unconquered. Talks...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio