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City week (1979)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; News report

City Week, presented by Tom Maddocks. Includes an interview by Barry Jordan with Engineering Employers Federation Secretary-General, Anthony Frodsham, on their public awareness newspaper campaign; interview...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Best of 1978: interviews from The Late Show 1978 - nd [1978]

Best of 1978: a selection of the best interviews from Radio Victory’s Late Show 1978. Interviews: [not announced, no introduction. Introductions are written on cue sheets] Frank Muir writer In: We had an...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Inventions that changed the world (1985)

A series aimed at the under-16s which takes a lighthearted look at the history of invention. Amongst the subject covered are the use of metals and discovery of bronze, the inventions of modern printing, the...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

City week (1979)

Genre

Interview; Discussion; Speech; Parliamentary debate; Special

City Week. A review of the week’s news as seen by IRN’s Financial Unit, hosted by Douglas Moffitt and Tom Maddocks. Topics covered include: mortgage costs and the housing market; the gold market and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Robert Taylor on North Sea titanium dumping (1983)

Genre

Interview

Greenpeace spokesman Robert Taylor on the divers’ blockage set up to prevent a (German?) ship dumping titanium dioxide waste into the North Sea. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Customer describes contaminated oranges (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Christine Chapman, a customer at a branch of Marks and Spencer in London, on buying a net of oranges which contained mercury; the poison had been deliberately placed there by a terrorist...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fred Pretty on mercury-poisoned oranges (1978)

Genre

Interview

After mercury was found in oranges in Holland, a thorough investigation took place, and Fred Pretty of the Citrus Marketing Board describes the outcome. The poisoning was found to be an isolated incident,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Navy’s last Daring class destroyer to be scrapped (1981)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the scrapping of the Royal Navy’s last destroyer in the Daring class - HMS Diamond. Includes an interview with Ken Fincken, whose firm in London won the contract to scrap the vessel.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Oranges poisoned with mercury (1978)

Genre

Interview

A woman (poss. Christine Chapman) who bought some oranges and cut into the fruit has found mercury inside it. She informed the Police, and the Environmental Heath Department is now involved. Here a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

City week (1979)

Genre

News report; Interview; Consumer advice

City Week, presented by Tom Maddocks; studio direction by David Balharry(?). Part 2 of 2. Valerie Bafell(?) interviews General Secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt on income...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio