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Queen Victoria recording (1991)

Genre

Speech

Archive clip which is believed to be the only recording of Queen Victoria, thought to have been made at Balmoral Castle in 1888. The message includes the words: Greetings...the answer must be...I have never...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Village Life: Arborfield (1987)

Mike Matthews this week visit the village life of Arborfield and Arborfield Cross. It lies 5 miles South of Reading on the A327 in Berkshire. The village has a long association with the Royal Electrical and...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Queen Victoria’s knickers sold (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Edome Broughton-Adderley about auction where she paid £160 for a pair of Queen Victoria’s bloomers.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prunella Scales on An Evening with Queen Victoria (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with actor Prunella Scales, about her performance at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in An Evening with Queen Victoria. The two reporters are not identified (the female reporter may be Eve Conway)....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

How to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee? (1979)

Genre

Interview

Sir Horace Cutler, leader of the Greater London Council, is interviewed about the idea of holding the World Trade Fair on the derelict Docklands. The idea was put forward as a way of celebrating the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Queen hands constitution to Canada (1982)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Queen Elizabeth II at Ottowa as she hands the new constitution to Canada following the enforcement of the Canada Act, speaking in English and French (with interpretation).

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Queen Mother 90th Birthday celebrations (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

Report on the Queen Mother’s 90th Birthday celebrations and her visit to London’s East End. Speakers are Deputy Headmistress, Ruth Gibbons(?); 6 year-old pupil Laura Holmes; Victoria Park keeper Steve...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Queen Mother celebrates 90th Birthday with visit to East End (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Music

John Allen reports for LBC Newstalk Breakfast from Canning Town in the East End of London. The Queen Mother is celebrating her 90th birthday by revisiting Canning Town and Tower Hamlets 50 years after her...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Francis McWilliams on becoming Lord Mayor (1992)

Genre

Interview

Sir Francis McWilliams talks to Sacha Van Straten about becoming Lord Mayor of London. He talks about how he progressed to the position and the gravity of the office. He talks about the future and the Lord...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prince Charles remembers the sacrifice of British forces (1991)

Genre

Speech

Speech (by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales?) in which he addresses the Lord Mayor of London, Prime Minister John Major and others at the Guildhall in London. On the end of the Gulf war and pays tribute to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio