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Protesters out in force as police storm church to seize asylum seeker (1989)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

The arrest of Sri Lankan (failed asylum seeker?) Viraj Mendis has provoked a political storm. Earlier today the thirty-two year-old communist and Tamil separatist was forcibly seized and removed from the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.10: Programme 10 of a weekly news and sports review (1986)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 10 Programme 10 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 19th December 1986. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Inquiries into police shooting two men (1984)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

Report on the Parliamentary debate over an incident where police shot two men at a post office in Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham, where they had been expecting a raid. Includes Commons speeches by Home...

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Kenneth Baker on rise in crime (1991)

Genre

Speech

Home Secretary, Kenneth Baker on the increase in crime, especially car crime. At a police conference in Torquay, Devon, he says the system must look at how to help young men, to prevent them moving towards a...

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Security in British prisons (1994)

Genre

Interview

Home Secretary, Michael Howard is facing increasing pressure to resign after semtex was found at Whitemoor maximum security prison in Cambridgeshire just two weeks after an attempted IRA jailbreak. An...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Decision makers (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; News report; Speech

Decision Makers - 200 years of the Foreign Office, presented by Peter Murphy. Looks at the Foreign Office and how its role has changed. Speaks to the present Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington (Peter...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bulger parents campaign for longer sentences for killers (1994)

Genre

Interview; News report

George Matheson reports on the petition delivered to the Home Office by the parents of murdered toddler James Bulger to appeal for a longer sentence for the two killers. Includes interviews with Ray...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Data Protection Bill (1982)

Genre

Interview

Two linked clips about the Government’s introduction of the Data Protection Bill and what it will mean to the public and what they can access. Speaking are Home Office minister Timothy Raison and in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Recorded crime falls in England and Wales (1994)

Genre

Interview

Two related interviews. Recorded crime in England and Wales fell by five-and-a-half percent in the year to June - the largest drop for 40 years. But violent crime is up and there have been more...

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Uncle of James Bulger interviewed (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Ray Matthews, the uncle of murdered toddler James Bulger. On the interjection of the Americans, who claimed the two killers were treated inhumanely by the British criminal justice system,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio