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Blackpool pleasure beach fire (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Report on a fire at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, no one was injured but some rides were badly damaged. Follows a previous IRA attack on the town, its not clear if this is is also an IRA attack. With comment...

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Portsea Island Discs: Harry Fisher, gardener and social worker (1984)

Andy Ferriss talks to Harry Fisher, a gardener and social worker that works for the Royal Society for Mentally Handicap Children and Adults, in Thornton, and runs the Blandwood Country Center. Born in...

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Marchioness disaster-reaction to legislation (1989)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Bob Crouch, Federation of Pleasure Boat Owners, about the announcement of new legislation prompted by the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat following a collision with the dredger...

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Marchioness disaster-eyewitness account (1989)

Genre

Interview

Interview with eyewitness Ray Watson on the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat following a collision with the dredger, Bowbelle, on the River Thames in London (20/08/89). He was on another pleasure...

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Pleasure boat owners look at safety issues (1989)

Genre

Interview

Alan Woods, from the Thames Passenger Services Association backs proposed changes to improve safety on the Thames including escorts for large vessels following the Marchioness pleasure cruiser disaster....

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Liberal Party Assembly - Pleasure boat cruise (1982)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Peter Spencer, reporting on the 1982 Liberal Assembly in Bournemouth, takes a cruise on the Dorset Bell pleasure boat around the local bay and conducts a vox pop with passengers.

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Marchioness disaster-eyewitnesses on sister ship (1989)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Press interview with eyewitnesses Ray Watson and Maria Kline(?), on the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat following a collision with the dredger, Bowbelle, on the River Thames in London (20/08/89)....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Marchioness disaster-new regulations (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Julie Sedgwick reports on proposed new regulations following the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat following a collision with the dredger, Bowbelle, on the River Thames in London (20/08/89). Includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Marchioness survivor account (1989)

Genre

Interview

Rod Lay, a survivor of the Marchioness disaster on the Thames describes his ordeal to the press as the pleasure boat sank after colliding with the Bowbelle.

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Marchioness disaster-survivor’s account (1989)

Genre

Interview

Interview with male survivor (not identified) on the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat following a collision with the dredger, Bowbelle, on the River Thames in London (20/08/89). Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio