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Monty at large (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Monty At Large, presented by Monty Modlyn. This episode focuses on the London Fire Brigade. Monty (along with producer Bavin Cook) visits the Brigade’s recruitment centre and fire station in Southwark and...

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Car in river; 2 interviews (1982)

Police now believe the car which plunged into the ice-covered River Thames near Reading Bridge had pushed in empty. But when the emergency services arrived at the scene minutes after the car sank beneath the...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Funeral of fire officer Colin Townsley (1987)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on the journey of the cortege of fire fighter and Senior Officer Colin Townsley from Soho Fire Station, via Kings Cross Station and Clerkenwell Fire Station to St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, where...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Policeman shot near Paddington (1991)

Genre

Interview

Eyewitness account of the shooting of a male police officer near Paddington Station when he and another officer were searching a couple they had pulled over for questioning. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Keith Howell presents this week’s edition of Our Kind of Town looking into the workings of the London Fire Brigade and spending a day with them. Shoreditch Divisional Officer John Weeble(?) explains the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London stations bombed (1991)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon interviews London Transport Information Officer Jennifer Schroeder from Victoria station on her warnings a month ago, prior to the Victoria and Paddington station bombs, about the dangers of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Goodge Street pub gas explosion (1978)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on a gas explosion at the Valiant Trooper pub on Goodge Street, London. Station Officer Tony Wilmot(?) of Soho (Fire?) Station was among the first to arrive at the scene. 19 people were taken to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Reading Station, scene of train collision (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Investigators are at the scene of the train crash at Reading station in which at least 40 people were hurt. Interview with Pauline Bagley of the West Berkshire Health Authority who describes the mock-up of a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Water pipe bursts during workers strike (1983)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Interview

Report on the first casualty of the national water workers strike, a burst water pipe at Eltham Road in London. Local residents talks about how they’re going to cope. Station Officer at Lee Green fire...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRA mortar attack on police station in Newry (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report for Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland on a mortar attack on a police station in Newry, County Down, where 35 people were injured - mostly civilians. Includes interviews with male eyewitness; male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio