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Life of a private detective (1981)

Genre

Interview

Unnamed first female president of the World Association of Detectives (daughter of Sidney James Scott) on the life of a private detective. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Private Detective Wiggins apprehends criminal; Brian Wiggins Interview (1986)

A Reading private detective has been talking about how he spotted escaped prisoner Joseph Hanson this morning, a few yards from the town’s main police station. 35-year-old former policeman Brian Wiggins,...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Short story (1987)

aka: The Adventure of the dying detective

Serialised Sherlock Holmes adventures. Drama for radio, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Hamish Wilson

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Streatley letter bomb (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on a letter bomb in Streatley, Berkshire. Includes interviews with postman Peter Collingbourne; Detective Superintendent Brian Romain and Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Meffen.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lockerbie body mix-up (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Woodley reports on a Scotland Yard detective flying to the USA to apologise to the family of a victim of the Lockerbie disaster after the wrong body was sent. Speaks to Robert Hunt, father of Karen Hunt...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Detective on Duchess of Kent pub shooting (1985)

Genre

Interview

Detective Alan Cheal is interviewed about an incident in which one man was killed and two others injured, in the Duchess of Kent pub, Liverpool Road, London. He comments on the neighbourhood in which the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

East End flat siege (1978)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Woodley reports on a siege at a flat in Bethnal Green, London, where a policeman, Detective Constable Ernest Pawley, was shot by Alan Murphy. Includes interviews with Detective Constable Russell Dunlop;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rapist Michael Fairley profile (1985)

Genre

Feature; Interview; News report; Press conference

Part of a Chiltern Radio special on the reign of terror in Yorkshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, instigated by Malcolm Fairley, a serial rapist known as The Fox. The programme follows his recent...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Baby abduction case (1992)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Sarah Lockett reports on the abduction of baby Farrah Quili. Farrah’s parents plead for her safe return; Detective Superintendent Keith Fletcher urges parents to be cautious when employing childminders, as...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Funeral of Detective Constable John Forham (1985)

Genre

News report; Music; Speech

Report on the funeral of Detective Constable John Fordham who died while investigating the Brinks Matt gold bullion robbery in West Kingsdown, Kent. With speech from Head of Criminal Intelligence Philip...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio