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Alabama train derailment kills 47 (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the derailment of an Amtrak train in a swamp area near Mobile, Alabama, USA killing 47 people as it headed for Miami, Florida from Los Angeles, California. Speakers are British survivors Scottish...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.67: Programme 67 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 67 Programme 67 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 7 February 1988. Presented by PETE WARDMAN....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 46, 47, 48. (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 46, 47 and 48.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Beach standards (1989)

Genre

Interview

Environment Minister Michael Howard talks about how 67% of British beaches meet the new European standards, how long it will be until all beaches will be up to standard and who pays for the improvements....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

MP challenges abusive man (1978)

Genre

Interview

A 67-year-old male MP (not identified - poss. Tom Swain) tells Peter Allen how he used a paralysing judo move to teach an abusive 27-year-old a lesson and how he used to be involved in fairground fighting.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New York plane crash (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Paul Woodley reports from New York on a Colombian airliner crashing on its approach to New York’s Kennedy Airport with 67 known to have died so far. Locals and rescuers talk about what they saw and Dr...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Earl Mountbatten recollects Indian independence (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with The Last Viceroy of India, Earl Mountbatten, recalling the transfer of power of India from Great Britain to the Indians in 1947 and why he chose the date of 15/08/47 (30 years ago today)....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Six-day war anniversary (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Gideon Rafael, former Israeli ambassador to the UK, on the anniversary of the Six-Day War between Israel and neighbouring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria (in 06/67). Male interviewer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Harold Pinter on Rushdie fatwa (1989)

Genre

Interview

Playwright, Harold Pinter on the International Committee for the Defence of Salman Rushdie. The campaign is attempting to keep the writer’s name in the forefront of people’s minds following the death...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ramstein air show disaster (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

George Matheson reports on an accident at a West German air show at the US Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, in which 67 spectators and 3 pilots died and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio