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A football game takes a lightning strike (1995)

Genre

Interview

Nineteen young footballers and a man were injured when lightning struck the tree where they took shelter during a storm today at Aylesford in Kent. Lloyd Gosden was one of the parents who watched in horror...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.42: Programme 42 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 42 Programme 42 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 9 August 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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Child stops breathing after lightning strike (1995)

Genre

Interview

A child stopped breathing after the lightning strike on a football pitch in Aylesford; Kent, in which 19 people were injured. Eyewitness on child’s recovery.

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Cricketer is killed by lightning (1987)

Genre

Vox pop

Eyewitness accounts of the death of a cricketer, Martin Whittaker, who died when he was hit by lightning while fielding for his club, the Economicals, during a friendly match at Isleworth, West London hit by...

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Lightning strike on football pitch (1995)

Genre

Interview

Patrick King, an eyewitness to the lightning strike on a football pitch at Aylesford in Kent, in which nineteen people were injured, tells of the response of the spectators in helping the injured people.

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Ambulance dispute (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Prime Minister James Callaghan condemning so-called lightning strikes following industrial action by ambulance workers over a nine percent pay offer. Interviewer not heard.

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Ambulance dispute (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Somerset Area Health Authority spokeman, Colin Craggs, condemning so-called lightning strikes by ambulance workers over pay. Male interviewer not identified. Telephone interview, audio level low.

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York Minster re-dedication service (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop

Clive Settle (Radio Aire) reports from York Minster on a special service of re-dedication, attended by Queen Elizabeth II, at Britain’s largest gothic church. Follows the destruction of the building by...

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