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UK joins Common Market - Edward Heath speech (1982)

Genre

Speech

Archive speech by (then) UK Prime Minister Edward Heath, on the signing of Britain’s entry into the European Common Market (22/01/72). Sound in mono; audio quality poor.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews Meets Leslie Thomas, writer (1985)

Mike Matthews talks to Leslie Thomas, born March 22, 1931 in Wales. He is a Barnado’s Boy. He talks about his life and his career as a writer. He lived in Barnado’s House from the age of 12 until he was...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Hangman: a documentary (1987)

aka: Albert Pierrepoint interview

Albert Pierrepoint was Britain’s most famous executioner during the 1930s-50s. Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung in Britain, numbers amongst those he executed. In this programme Pierrepoint talks about...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Windrush anniversary service at Southwark Cathedral (1988)

Genre

Interview

Gareth Furby reports on a service at Southwark Cathedral in London celebrating the fourtieth anniversary of the arrival of the ship carrying Britain’s first five hundred Jamaican immigrants. The SS...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jimmy Knapp on rail strike (1989)

Genre

Interview

Margaret Shiels interviews Jimmy Knapp, NUR General Secretary, about a proposed national rail strike on 21/06/89. The Executive of the NUR will meet on 22/06/89 to discuss the effects of the stoppage and to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Deal Marines’ funeral - Parade (1989)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Speech

Clayre Gribben reports on the funeral of bandsmen killed in the bomb attack on the Royal Marines’ barracks in Deal, Kent (22/09/89). Includes reaction of female member of the public (not identified);...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Deal Marines’ funeral - Speech by Commandant General (1989)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Lieutenant General Sir Martin Garrod, Commandant General of the Royal Marines, in which he brands the IRA, thugs, extortionists, torturers, murderers and cowards - in fact, the scum of the earth....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Channel tunnel break through links UK and France (1990)

Genre

News report; News bulletin

IRN 22.00 news bulletin with Katherine Kelly, focusing on the breaking through by bore hole in the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France – the first time since the Ice Age. Includes report by Leon...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

One PC killed, another wounded by bank raiders in Coventry (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Rob Gurney reports on a car chase through the streets of Coventry where one police constable was shot dead and another seriously wounded. The shootings followed an attempted raid on a branch of the Midland...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Peter Cornwell on Battle of Britain (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Peter Cornwell, military historian, on his research into the Battle of Britain during the Second World War. The interview coincides with the publication of his new book, The Battle of Britain:...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio