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Salman Rushdie on fatwa (1992)

Genre

Interview

Extract from an interview with author Salman Rushdie in which he says that he has paid a high price for publishing The Satanic Verses. The 44 year-old writer has been in hiding with a round-the-clock guard...

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Recollections of Munich air disaster (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male journalist (poss. Frank Taylor?) on his recollections of the Munich air disaster on 06/02/58 when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany. On...

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National Youth Orchestra of Scotland (1984)

A concert of classical music with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland given at The City Hall, Glasgow, performing Symphony no.3 in A minor, op.44: Rachmaninov (movement 3 only).

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London policeman shot dead (1993)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech; Tribute

Jeremy Hillman reports on the shooting dead of 44 year-old PC Patrick Dunne by an armed gang while investigating a burglary in Clapham, South London. The crime is believed to have been drug-related. Speakers...

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Whisky galore exhibition (1995)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

Report on a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum commemorating the incident involving the SS Politician which ran aground off Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides on 5/2/41 leaving the cargo to be...

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Cancer scandal in Birmingham hospital (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Richard Frediani reports from Blackpool on local teenager Debbie Leary who was wrongfully diagnosed in the Birmingham Royal Orthopaedic Hospital cancer scandal, a report into which has just been released,...

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Drink-drive BR man jailed (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

A British Rail driver who crashed his passenger train whilst under the influence of alcohol has been jailed for 9 months at the Old Bailey. 41 year-old Stephen Peckham, from Carmichael Road, South Norwood,...

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Jupiter shipwreck - death of Bernard Butt (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

William Roncon reports on the presumed death by drowning of 41-year-old teacher Bernard Butt, from the TP Riley School, in Bloxwich, Walsall following the sinking of the cruise liner Jupiter off the Greek...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.54: Programme 54 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 54 Programme 54 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 1 November 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Bomb attack on RUC canteen (1985)

Genre

Speech

Sermon by DUP leader Reverend Ian Paisley at the funeral of Reserve Constable Geoffrey Campbell, one of those killed after responding to an IRA mortar attack on an RUC canteen in Newry, County Down, which...

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