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Manager opens Tube train doors on wrong side (1990)

Genre

Interview

Mark Phillips interviews Ian Arthurton, London Regional Transport’s passenger services manager who has admitted he accidentally opened the doors of a tube train on the wrong side whilst getting a flavour...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Business Programme No.37 (1989)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Tonight, Foreign holiday theme. Track 1- Holiday trade. Interview with Mr Clive Wyatt, Regional Manager South, and Mr Pat...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

National Railway Round-up: July 1989 (1989)

The latest news from the National Railway network. Dr. John Prideaux, Director of Intercity, discusses steam trains in North Wales. Paul Cobb, Traffic Manager at Didcot Parkway talks about a recent ‘diesel...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Midland bank job cuts (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the Midland Bank’s announced 1,800 job losses in the name of community banking. Speaks to Tom Robson, regional manager at the bank; Heather Tilston of BIFU union; banking analyst Johnny Delahay.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Third night of disturbances in Toxteth (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special

Paul Davies reports from the area on a third night of violence and looting in Toxteth, Liverpool, with the drafting in of police reinforcements to prevent further rioting. Includes interviews with the Rector...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

BR runs services despite strike (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Margaret Shiels reports from London Bridge station on the sixth national rail strike. British Rail have managed to run some services this time and are claiming one in four men in the south east defied the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kings Cross fire disaster (1987)

Genre

Interview

Report on the Kings Cross Underground fire referring to earlier Oxford Circus station fire. Including eyewitness account by Andy Crowan(?); Kings Cross station manager on investigating the fire, he was...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

J B Priestley train naming ceremony (1980)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Report from Euston Station in London on the naming of a railway locomotive after novelist and playwright J B Priestley. Speaking are: Jim O’Brien, British Rail London-Midlands Regional Manager; J B...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Youth unemployment (1981)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Four-part programme on youth unemployment, presented by Tommy Boyd. Considers the prospects of 720,000 school leavers who are entering the employment market at a time of mass unemployment. Interviewees...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London airports expansion inquiry (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Maurice reports on the inquiry into airport expansion in London. With comment from British Airports Authority director of planning, Don Turner; director of airport planning for British Airways, Tom...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio