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Shergar kidnap (1983)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the confusion following the kidnap of the multi-million pound racehorse Shergar from the Aga Khan’s Ballymany stud farm in County Kildare, Ireland. Includes interviews with two of the three...

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FA charges Grobbelaar with match-fixing (1994)

Genre

Interview

Bruce Grobbelaar says he will play for Southampton Football Club against Arsenal on Saturday despite the Football Association’s decision to charge him on 2 counts relating to fixing of matches whilst he...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

SOGAT 82 conference (1986)

Genre

News report; Speech

Journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspapers have reversed their decision to back the printworkers in the News International dispute. Mark Mardell reports on speech by Labour leader Neil Kinnock...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sequestration of SOGAT 82 funds (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report

Mark Mardell reports on the High Court’s order that SOGAT 82 funds be sequestrated until the union withdraws its order to wholesalers not to touch the Sun and the Times newspapers.The National Graphical...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Seasons in the sun (1985)

This is a special programme to mark the centenary of one of Lancashire’s most famous landmarks. The pier at St.Annes-on Sea was 100 years old in June 1985. The programme traces the history of the pier in...

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Row over Lottery winner’s identity (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Victoria Smith reports on investigations into whether National Lottery organiser Camelot has made sufficient efforts to protect a winner’s identity following a record eighteen million-pound payout....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Camillagate tape scandal (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Mark Phillips reports on the Camillagate recording of an alleged intimate telephone conversation between Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, and publication of the transcript in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

TUC urges newspaper boycott (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Mark Mardell reports on electricians’ union leader Eric Hammond’s visit to the Trades Union Congress, during which he was jeered and booed by striking printworkers. Tony Dubbins of the NGA says throwing...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Phillip Schofield’s first night as Joseph (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Music

Mark Phillips reports on Phillip Schofield’s West End debut as Joseph in the hit show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Children’s television presenter Schofield received standing ovations...

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Poles Apart (Dramatised short story) (1985)

As the sun sets on the British Empire, two intrepid Artic explorers set out for the North Pole - but they don’t know what they’re letting themselves in for, especially since one of them harbours a secret...

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