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D-Day landings archive recordings (1974)

Genre

News report; Speech

A selection of archival BBC radio clips on the D-Day landings. The first is the announcement of the D-Day landings, including a report from a bomber plane on a mission as they fly over the invasion. The next...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews People: David Hemery (1984)

Interview with David Hemery, champion hurdler. Born July 18, 1944. He talks about his life and his career. David Hemery won the Olympic 400 metre title from lane 8, traditionally the worst lane in Mexico...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Operation Overlord - D-Day 1944 Remembered (1984)

A documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Interviewees recall the events of that dramatic day.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Tim Marshall on new D-Day memorial (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

The Queen Mother has joined in celebrations marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy by unveiling a stained glass window in the eleventh-century Bayeux Cathedral. As Tim...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fiftieth anniversary of D-Day exhibition at RAF Hendon (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special

Max Cotton reports on the start of London’s celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 with a special ceremony and launch of an exhibition at the RAF Museum at...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maureen McGoldrick on not guilty verdict (1986)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Report on the court verdict in favour of Maureen McGoldrick, a Brent headteacher accused of making a racist remark to an administrative education assistant at the local authority regarding the employment of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

D-Day celebrations planned on 50th anniversary (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Andrew Bomford reports on Government plans for a series of nationwide tributes to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landings (Operation Overlord) in Normandy in 1944. Thousands of veteran troops...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

D-Day 40 years on (1984)

Genre

News report; Speech; News bulletin; Special

A selection of D-Day news archives, including the first reports of the landings and reports from a bomber.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

D-Day commemorations (1994)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male talks about D-Day fiftieth birthday. He says it is not a celebration but a commemoration of the people who lost their lives and loved ones. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

D-Day 40 years on (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with John Snagge, the voice that brought the news of the D-Day landings, on how he broke the news.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio