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Non-stop DJing world record attempt (1977)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Disc jockey John James has broken the world record for non-stop disc jockeying. The new record now stands at 900 hours, which is 37 days, 12 hours and 2 minutes. The attempt was a charity event for Action...

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Freckleton: the lost generation (1984)

A documentary about a tragedy that happened in the small village of Freckleton, in Lancashire, on the 23rd of August of 1944. An American Liberator bomber B-24 42-50291, on a test flight, crashed into the...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

NHS redundancy payment overspend (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour health spokesman Frank Dobson criticising Government ministers for incompetent management of the DHSS and allowing a 45 million pound overspend on early retirement redundancy payments...

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Richard McMillan returns his OBE (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Veteran war correspondent Richard McMillan returns the OBE medal he was awarded 45 years ago, as a protest against the poll tax (community charge). Nigel Dearing reports from Buckingham Palace where McMillan...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Allied forces sink Iraqi ship (1991)

Genre

News report

Lynx helicopters from HMS Gloucester and HMS London, along with a US A6 fighter bomber, have sunk an Iraqi TNC-45 fast patrol boat carrying Exocet missiles. It was struck by a British Sea Skewer missile and...

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Hiroshima survivor recollects (1995)

Genre

Interview

Lecturer of Japanese literature at the University of California in Los Angeles, Professor Masao Miyoshi, was in Tokyo throughout the Second World War but after it ended moved to the United States. Here he...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

James Baker and Douglas Hurd on a united Germany (1990)

Genre

Speech

In 2 short clips, US Secretary of State James Baker and UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd talk about the real possibility of a united Germany, 45 years after the end of World War II, in the context of an...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Daniel Morgan murder (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Detective Superintendent Douglas Campbell, on the case of 37-year-old private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was found brutally murdered a year ago outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham,...

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Merlyn Rees on police pay offer (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with UK Home Secretary Merlyn Rees about the introduction of a staggered pay rise for police over two years of 45%, which he thinks this will satisfy police. Other factors in police dissatisfaction...

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IRA Brighton bombing - Thatcher reaction (1984)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reaction to press shortly after the IRA bomb explosion at the Grand Hotel in Brighton where she and many Conservative Party colleagues and ministers were staying during the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio