Results

National no smoking day - increase in lung cancer (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview on a recent increase in cases of lung cancer, allegedly caused by tobacco smoking. The interview coincides with National No Smoking Day. Male speaker not identified. Male interviewer not identified...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Eric Few talks about the Reading mobile chest x-ray unit - nd [1975-1986]

An interview with Eric Few talking about the Reading mobile chest x-ray unit. He says that originally, making x-ray with this machine, the main objective was to try to find the early stages of the suspected...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Roy Castle on cancer fundraising (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Raffi Berg reports from Merseyside where entertainer Roy Castle is in the final stages of his fight against lung cancer and is aiming to raise money to build the first international lung cancer research...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Roy Castle on cancer fundraising (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with entertainer Roy Castle from his hospital bed where he’s in the final stages of his fight against lung cancer. Castle has set out on a gruelling fundraising tour of Britain to raise...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Promising trials for new lung cancer drug, XR 5000 (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Cancer Research campaign spokeswoman, Sue Foden, following tests of a new lung cancer drug called XR 5000. Experts say trials have gone extremely well and the Cancer Research campaign has...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Youngest heart and lung transplant (1986)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Report on the youngest heart and lung transplant patient, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby. Jem Paterson’s parents, Ian and Jane Paterson, recall the moment they found out their child would need a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Roy Castle dies from lung cancer (1994)

Genre

Obituary; News report; Interview

Report on the death of entertainer, Roy Castle, who has died after losing his fight with lung cancer and looking back at his life. During the last few weeks of his life Castle toured the country raising...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

First heart and lung transplant at Old Court Clinic (1987)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on successful heart and lung transplant operation at the private Old Court Clinic in London by surgeon Magda Yakoub. Martine, awaiting a transplant operation at the clinic, comments on recovery of the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Roy Castle on lend a hand campaign (1992)

Genre

Interview

Television presenter and lung cancer sufferer Roy Castle talks to Stephanie West about the Lend a Hand campaign to raise money for Imperial Cancer Research. Celebrities will make a print of their hands in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Heart/lung transplant patient on how its changed her life (1987)

Genre

Interview

Brenda Barber, heart/lung transplant patient on how the transplants have changed her life and her illness, Fibrosing Alveolitis. Also Sam Barber, Brenda’s daughter, on the differences the transplants...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio