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Eric Clapton on the death of his son (1992)

Genre

Interview; Music

Musician Eric Clapton speaks to Sue Lawley about the death of his 4 year-old son Conor (on 20/03/91) and writing songs in his memory. Clapton describes how his son fell from the window of his mother’s New...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

US pilot dies in North Korea (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Lieutenent Colonel Philip Crowley, from the Pentagon, after it was revealed that one of the two pilots of the US Army helicopter which was forced down in North Korea on Saturday has died. The...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British schoolchildren in coach crash (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on a coach accident in the South of France involving schoolchildren from Beaumont School in St Albans. Parents are preparing to fly out, but little information about survivors has been released so...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRA Brighton bombing - News bulletin (1984)

Genre

News bulletin

Sue Newland reads the LBC news bulletin at 3.37 (am?) announcing the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party conference and that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is safe....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London Ambulance computer crash (1993)

Genre

News report; Speech; Interview

Peter Deeley reports for Angela Rippon FM Drivetime show on the inquiry report into the breakdown of London Ambulance Services’ £1million ermergency aided despatch computer system last October....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kegworth air disaster-funerals (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Gary Duffy reports on the first funerals of victims of the crash of a British Midland Boeing 737 travelling from Heathrow Airport to Belfast, near Kegworth, Leicestershire (08/01/89). Focuses on the funeral...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kegworth air disaster - CAA orders plane instrument checks (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Kegworth air disaster. John Alcock reports that, following the interview with injured pilot Captain Kevin Hunt, the Civil Aviation Authority has ordered immediate checks on planes similar to that involved in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Disasters (1993)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

LBC documentary series, Disasters. Life in London, presented by Martin Young. How would London cope in the event of a major disaster? Starts with El Al plane crash in Amsterdam, 4 October 1992. Producer:...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Help for a Reading junior football team (1982)

Gainsboro boss Tiny Rowland should know later today whether his deal with Sir Freddie Laker will get a licence, and get some Laker planes back in the air in a Peoples airlines. But, the millionaire has...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Clapham Rail Disaster (1988)

Seventeen tracks giving news about the situation on the site: Clapham Junction, South of London. The crash between 2 trains this morning: one coming from Basingstoke and the other from Poole/Bournemouth...

ILR South Radio Online Audio