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Economic aid for Soviet Union (1991)

Genre

Interview

Excerpt from interview with British Prime Minister John Major following the failure of a coup in the Soviet Union, on economic aid and advice to the Soviet Union. Interviewer (not heard) is political editor...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sunday Supplement: interview and music programme - Ocean Sound - CD61 (1989)

The CDs from No. 54 to 74, are Sunday Supplements presented by Amanda Ware, single tracks. Either the tapes have been edited, or the programmes ran without commercial breaks. The transmission time is changed...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

The Price of dissent (1984)

The story of the ordinary Russian citizens who have testified about serial human rights abuses in the contemporary Soviet Union. Many suspects of the KGB were sent to do heavy labour in Siberia due to their...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Ronald Reagan on relations with Soviet Union (1986)

Genre

Speech

Ronald Reagan, President of the USA, has a message on New Year’s Day for the people of the Soviet Union. He talks about his meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva. Both the USA and Soviet Union...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Soviet Union disbands (1991)

Genre

Vox pop

Following the vote by the Congress of People’s Deputies to disband the Soviet Union in favour of a confederation of independent states the deputies give their views. Reporter not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British Ambassador on Soviet coup aftermath (1991)

Genre

Interview

Telephone interview with British ambassador to the Soviet Union Sir Roderick Braithwaite on the recent failed coup in the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership, future political reform, and the reaction of the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Break up of the Soviet Union (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male on the situation in the Soviet Union. On the instability following the break up of the union; NATO concern over control of the Soviet nuclear and chemical arsenal and...

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UN proposal to USSR over Afghanistan (1981)

Genre

Speech

Statement by Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington (Peter Carington) on his talks with Soviet minister Andrei Gromyko following the Soviet Union’s intervention in Afghanistan. Carrington reports the Soviet...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Soviet Union psychiatric abuses (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a British male speaker (not identified) on a trial in the Soviet Union focusing on the use of psychiatry. It examines claims that psychiatry was abused by the government for political ends,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Soviet Union tourism with London-Moscow coach service (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special

Paul Beard reports from the new weekly Anglo-Soviet coach service between London and Moscow for tourists. Includes actuality of the arrival in the Soviet Union, stopover in Minsk and changing of the guard in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio