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Edward Heath on Fastnet yacht race disaster (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with former Prime Minister Edward Heath on the investigation which will need to be carried out into the Fastnet yacht race disaster on 14/08/79, after his boat was one of the few to reach the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Princess Di pregnant- baby’s position in line to throne (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Michael Maclagan, author of Lines of Succession, on the position in line to the throne of the royal baby, following the announcmement of Princess Diana, Princess of Wales’ first pregnancy...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Miners strike - Eyewitness account of picket line violence (1984)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male eyewitness on the coal miners’ picket line action in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, where miner David Jones died. Speaker describes how bottles, sticks, bricks and stones were thrown. He saw...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Miners strike - Maltby picket line violence (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the picket line violence between police and demonstrators in Maltby during the ongoing miners’ strike. Chief Superintendent John Nesbitt describes the police reaction and NUM Branch Secretary...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jubilee line extension into London Docklands (1992)

Genre

Interview; News report

Peter Plisner reports on the benefits of extending London Underground’s Jubilee line into the Docklands. Eric Sorensen, Chief Executive of London Docklands Development Corporation, says the extension is...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Violence on the front line [Part 1] (1986)

aka: The Murder of Isabel Schwarz [Part 2]

Part 1. Violence on the Front Line: knives, iron bars, axes, bottles - just some of the weapons used by clients on their social workers. Often physically attacked for no apparent reason, social workers in...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

UN meets to agree action against Iraq (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech

The five major members of the UN Security Council - Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union and China – are holding talks in an attempt to agree on the line of action to take against Iraq,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

One-man trains introduced on Bedpan line (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the British Rail decision to introduce single-man trains on the Bedford to St Pancras (Bedpan) line, despite the opposition of the ASLEF trade union who were forced to agree after withholding of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

RSPCA members expelled (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the expulsion of five leading members of the RSPCA who were expelled by the charity’s ruling council after being found guilty of bringing the organisation into disrepute. The members are now...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Maginot Line: Myth and Reality - 14 Sept [1975-1986]

Sean Street talks to Anthony Kemp who explains the missunderstanding about the system of fortification during the Great War. This Line was an elaborate defensive barrier in Northeast France constructed in...

ILR South Radio Online Audio