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War orphans killed in Vietnamese plane crash (1975)

Genre

News report

Julian Manyon reports on a plane crash near Saigon, Vietnam (04/04/75). The C-5A Galaxy aeroplane, piloted by the US Airforce, was taking part in Operation Babylift and most of those killed were Vietnamese...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Immigration widows (1984)

An examination of immigration rules and nationalisation laws passed by the Government, which are forcing families apart. Some women are allowed to live here while their husbands are not, and some children...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Orphans in Beirut after invasion (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

Andrew Simmons reports from the Muslim Orphanage Institute in Beirut following the Israeli invasion of the Lebanon. Includes interview with Institute Director-General Mohammad Barakat; sound of children.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Children abandoned in East Berlin (1989)

Genre

News report

Catherine Field reports from a children’s home in East Berlin, on the plight of children left behind by parents who moved to the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kampuchean refugee special (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Special

Special report from Thailand on refugees from Kampuchea (now known as Cambodia), following the Vietnamese occupation of the country and as guerilla war continues. On the Thai border camps, looking...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lockerbie bombing-local boy orphaned (1989)

Genre

News report

Report on 14-year-old Steven Flannigan from Lockerbie, Scotland, who lost his family following the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103. Reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mother Teresa children homes in Calcutta (1980)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified female speaker on the work of Mother Teresa’s children homes in India, and on the visit of Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) to Calcutta. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster (1987)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on Martin Hartley, eight-year old orphaned survivor of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; includes recording of a school assembly with speech by...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Andrew Parker, survivor of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; on insurance sharks taking advantage of survivors and on Kerry Smith?,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Children of Courage awards (1988)

Genre

Interview

Kevin Murphy interviews twelve year-old Kelly Taylor from Woolwich in south London during a carol service at Westminster Abbey, where the Duchess of York awarded twelve children with Children of Courage...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio