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Two die in Brick Lane fire (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Report about a fire at a squat at 111 Brick Lane in London, a mainly Bengali area, where two men were killed and one injured. Speaking are: Chief Inspector John Fairfield of Bethnal Green Police; male member...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Body Scanner Appeal; Ken Thomas (1981)

The Ken Thomas Appeal has launched a new scheme to raise money for their body scanner this lunchtime. A year since Ken Thomas himself died from cancer. To date the appeal has raised over 8 hundred and 30...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Joe Hunt on race relations in Brick Lane (1978)

Genre

Interview

Joe Hunt of the Commission for Racial Equality (Tower Hamlets), on the immigration and changing racial demographic of the Brick Lane area of London. Hunt claims that more Asian people are moving to the area,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Heseltine says let house prices rise in the south (1988)

Genre

Interview

Former cabinet minister Michael Heseltine says he is reluctant for new housing developments to be built on greenfield sites and housing prices in the south should be allowed to rise forcing people to move...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gladys Dimson on housing exclusively for Bengalis (1978)

Genre

Interview

Gladys Dimson of the Greater London Council does not want to see exclusively Bengali housing areas in London. Dimson speaks after violence in the Brick Lane area. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Len Murray on police control of National Front (1978)

Genre

Interview

Len Murray, General Secretary of the TUC, criticises the police and their handling of National Front activity in the Brick Lane area of London. Murray claims that the Police need to do more to protect...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Roland Freeman on racial segregation in London (1978)

Genre

Interview

Conservative MP Roland Freeman on plans for segregated Bengali housing in the Brick Lane area of London. Freeman claims that racial segregation would lead to ghettos and increase racial violence in the area....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Public meeting on Bengali housing in Brick Lane (1978)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a public meeting on London housing, in which Greater London Council’s Chairman of Housing Management, Jean Tatham responds to angry residents. Tatham claims that the press has exaggerated...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Calls to ban BNP (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on calls to ban the British National Party as Home Secretary Michael Howard went on a fact finding mission to Brick Lane, East London which has been the scene of racial violence between the Asian and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Co-founder of Anti-Nazi League at carnival (1978)

Genre

Interview

Co-founder of the Anti-Nazi League Peter Hain speaks at a party carnival protesting against racism and the activities of the National Front. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio