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David Blunkett on guide dog, Offa (1988)

Genre

Interview

Caroline Beck interviews Sheffield MP, David Blunkett at a dog training centre where he is training his new guide dog, Offa, following the death of his former dog, Ted, after ten years’ faithful service....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lisa Hurst murder (1982)

An interview with the grandmother of the schoolgirl 15-years-old Lisa Hurst. She lived with relatives in Reading. Her body was found by a man walking with his dog in a park. She was stabbed to death. Police...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Edinburgh Festival special (1984)

A programme that samples some of the highlights of the thirty-eighth International Edinburgh Festival. Includes interviews with selected fringe companies; mime artist David Glass; Fringe Chairman Andrew...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

David Blunkett retires guide dog Offa (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with blind MP David Blunkett on the retirement of his current guide dog, Offa. He expresses regret at the departure and looks back at Offa’s career, but says the vet who treated him when he was...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

LBC guide dog appeal (1987)

Genre

Interview

Don Liddell, guide dog appeal organiser on the enormous reponse to LBC’s guide dog appeal and how guide dogs are trained at Redbridge Training Centre. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Elderly woman attacked by Rottweiler dog (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

A Rottweiler dog which savaged a 75 year-old woman has been destroyed. As Emma Paterson reports, this is the latest in a series of attacks by dogs of the breed. Nelly(?) Williams, the victim in this case,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Armed robber who shot police dog sentenced (1986)

Genre

News report

Tim Crook reports on the sentencing of an armed robber, Patrick Murray, who was involved in a bank raid in which a police dog was shot and after which his accomplice, Anthony Baldazari(?), committed suicide.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Eyewitness describes dog attack on child (1990)

Genre

Interview

Jeanette(?) Walsh, eyewitness to a dog attack on 7 year-old Stephen(?) Finlay(?) in Liverpool, describes what happened when the boy was savaged by two Rottweilers. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ten convictions for dog fighting (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the conviction and sentencing of ten people for organising a dog fighting ring after a tip off and raid in Potter’s Bar, Hertfordshire; some were sent to jail. Speakers are protesters and dog...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Dog attack kills young boy (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the case of a dog mauling a boy, Dean Parker, to death in Middlesborough at the weekend. Peter Davies, father of a friend of the boy who was killed describes what happened; Terence Bates, RSPCA ,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio