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Sputnik 1 launch - Archive newsreel (1982)

Genre

News report; Special

Archive newsreel broadcast (04/10/57) on the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 – the world’s first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. Male reporter not identified. Sound in mono.

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Ocean Sound This Week No.52: Programme 52 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 52 Programme 52 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 18 October 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Dracula: episode 1 to 4 [Part 1 and 2] (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 1 to 4.

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Trevor Dann on Radio 1 censorship of Beatles record (1996)

Genre

Interview

Trevor Dann, BBC Radio 1’s Head of Production, on not playing a newly-released Beatles record. He denies that the decision to exclude it from the Radio 1 playlist constitutes a ban or a snub. Male...

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Holland 1 submarine lifted from seabed (1982)

Genre

Interview

Telephone interview with Lieutenant John Wakely on the lifting from the seabed off the coast of Cornwall of the Holland 1 - the Royal Navy’s first operational submarine which sank in 1913, three miles from...

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Holland 1 submarine resurfaces (1982)

Genre

Interview

Richard Compton-Hall, curator of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport in Hampshire, on the resurfacing of Britain’s oldest submarine, Holland 1. Male interviewer not identified.

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Boris Yeltsin on foreign aid to Russia (1992)

Genre

Press conference

Russian President Boris Yeltsin, speaking through an interpreter, claims that the 280 million pounds of aid promised by UK Prime Minister John Major is not enough. Yeltsin says Russia needs food assistance...

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Brian Mawhinney defends increase in prescription charges (1993)

Genre

Interview

Health Minister Brian Mawhinney defends the government’s decision to increase prescription charges by 50 pence to £4.25 per item, a 13 percent rise and almost eight times the inflation rate. Mawhinney...

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John Major conference speech, 13/10/95. Pt 1 (1995)

Genre

Speech

Speech by John Major, Prime Minister, at the 1995 Conservative Party Conference. The address follows his victory in the recent leadership contest. Part 1.

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Harold Wilson on industry, part 1 (1975)

Genre

Speech

Speech by UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson on trade and industry. Part 1. Contains brief musical interlude, possibly accidental recording.

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