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The Business Programme No.78 (1990)

The Business Programme No.78, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. TRACK 1- Budget comment - The South’s Business community gives its verdict on the budget. Interviews with: Mike...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Campsite gas explosion in Spain under investigation (1978)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the investigation into the Los Alfaques campsite gas explosion in Spain (11/07/78). Includes eyewitness report of the explosion and a report from the hospital on the survivors. The death toll has...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

UFO sighting in Australia (1978)

Genre

News report

Terry Plain reports from Australia on Frederick Valentich, who reported sighting a UFO before disappearing in his light aircraft. The pilot was flying between Melbourne and King Island and the incident...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Edgar Lustgarten dies (1978)

Genre

Interview; Tribute

Interview with BBC radio producer Roger Pine, paying tribute to writer and broadcaster Edgar Lustgarten, who has died at the age of seventy-one (died on 15/12/78). Male interviewer not identified. Audio...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Roy Orbison sends message to coma girl (1978)

Genre

Interview

Singer Roy Orbison talks about his message to Michelle Booth, a fan of his music, who is still in a coma after being attacked and thrown from a train in west London (18/03/78). Male interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British Embassy in Kuwait sealed off (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Embassies in Kuwait are being forced to close by Iraqi troops, and diplomats have been warned to leave before the deadline, but four British diplomats remain at their Embassy. Includes an interview with...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

David Duke on BRMB radio (1978)

Genre

Interview; Phone-in

Excerpt from a phone-in (8/3/78) with David Duke, Ku-Klux Klan Grand Wizard, on BRMB. Interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Patrick Steptoe on test-tube baby (1983)

Genre

Interview

Infertility expert and test-tube baby pioneer Patrick Steptoe on Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby born five years ago on 25/07/78. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

George Blake, double agent, interviewed in Moscow (1990)

Genre

Interview

Spy author Phillip Knightley interviews Soviet double agent, George Blake in Moscow, following the publication of his autobiography (which Knightley wrote the foreword for). While working for the British...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Taunton residents help train fire victims (1978)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified female tells how she and other local residents ministered to survivors of the Taunton sleeping car fire of 06/07/78. She recounts how they took people into their homes, and describes their...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio