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Car in river; 2 interviews (1982)

Police now believe the car which plunged into the ice-covered River Thames near Reading Bridge had pushed in empty. But when the emergency services arrived at the scene minutes after the car sank beneath the...

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Child dies after attempt to run away (1978)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the death of 8-year-old Lester Chapman following his attempt to run away from his home in Reading. Includes interviews with Superintendent Peter East; Detective Sergeant Bob Harrington; family...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bomb attack on RUC canteen (1985)

Genre

Speech

Sermon by DUP leader Reverend Ian Paisley at the funeral of Reserve Constable Geoffrey Campbell, one of those killed after responding to an IRA mortar attack on an RUC canteen in Newry, County Down, which...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Network (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Vox pop

Network - Paint it Black: A Portrait of Handsworth. Part 2. A series produced and presented by Brian King. The role of the police in Handsworth and local people’s attitudes to and thoughts about the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRA bomb Shropshire barracks (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report by Simon Israel of what happened in the IRA bomb attack on 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment Tern Hill barracks in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Includes interviews with Colonel Peter Hicks; Sergeant Major...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Policeman’s hand cut off with sword (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview

Peter Deeley reports on an incident in Albany Close, Tottenham, North London, involving policeman Sergeant Bob Window who was attacked with a sword while carrying out a house search. His left hand had to be...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bomb attack on RUC canteen (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Report on an IRA mortar attack on an RUC canteen in Newry, County Down, which has killed nine police officers. Speaking are: female eyewitness (not identified); Chief Superintendent Bill Stewart; Reverend...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hundreds rescued from St Malo ferry (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Alison Hodgkins reports on the rescue of 307 people from off the coast of Jersey after a French ferry, the St Malo started to sink. Includes Assistant Harbourmaster Paul Mimmack describing the rescue...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Terrorist attack foiled in Hanover (1989)

Genre

Interview

American reporter Jesse Schulman interviews a male army spokesman (not identified for security reasons) in the German town of Hanover about a terrorist attack on the homes of British servicemen folied by a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Escaped father abducts children (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Report on the capture of two escaped prisoners from Everthorpe Prison in Humberside, Richard Johnson and James Moore, who abducted Moore’s children and escaped to Wales. Speakers are Assistant Chief...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio