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Cannon Street rail crash (1991)

Genre

Interview

Survivor of the Cannon Street train crash, Shane Wheeler(?), explains what happened. He says there was a warning from the guard that there were no brakes but there was no time for panic. 247 people were...

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Falkland school teacher comments on the 1982 War - nd [1982]

An interview with a school teacher working in the Falklands Islands in a school for English children, during the Falklands War. She reports the danger and fears they experienced when they knew that there was...

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Hong Kong must go (1984)

Documentary about Hong Kong. What future is there for the five and a half million British citizens living there?

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Alan Cowell on killings in Kolwezi, Zaire (1978)

Genre

News report

Telephone report by Alan Cowell on the killings in Kolwezi in southern Zaire during an eight-day occupation by Katangese rebels. White survivors of the invasion are being airlifted but there are claims that...

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Bomb explodes on British Army base in West Germany (1990)

Genre

Interview

Army spokesman Michael Middleton on the damaged caused by a bomb explosion in a lecture hall at a training centre for the Royal Engineers on a British Army base near Hameln (Hamelin), West Germany. There...

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Lord George-Brown talks about his conveyancing scheme (1974)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour peer and former UK Chancellor Lord George-Brown about his conveyancing scheme. He defends the need for his policy and says that there are not the risks attached to it that people say...

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Legal powers of traffic wardens (1977)

Genre

Interview

Bob Campbell of the Automobile Association (AA), discusses the role and legal power of traffic wardens. There is some dispute as to what powers traffic wardens should have, and there is a move in the courts...

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Michael Heseltine on defence budget cuts (1985)

Genre

Interview

Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine says there will be cuts in defence expenditure in line with other NATO countries and defends the cuts. Says there will still be money for Trident nuclear submarine...

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Grenville Hawley reacts to red moles at BL’s Cowley plant (1983)

Genre

Interview

Grenville Hawley, Transport and General Workers Union, says there was a review of workers being recruited by British Leyland and that was how discrepancies were uncovered. He says there is no evidence of...

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John Bodkin Adams - New book (1983)

Genre

Interview

Author, Mark Williams on the publication of his book, Where There’s A Will, co-written by Rodney Hallworth, about the serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Bodkin Adams died on 04/07/83. Male interviewer not...

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