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Conviction of John Dunne for the murder of Lorraine Benson (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tim Crook reporting on the Old Bailey conviction of John Dunne for the rape and murder of Lorraine Benson near Raynes Park railway station in London. Includes an interview with father Michael Benson, arguing...

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The Business Programme No.4 (1988)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- The plan is to bring sattelite television channels, video-games, home shopping and much else into the homes of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Lorraine Benson murder case (1988)

Genre

Interview

Margaret Shiels interviews Detective Chief Superintendent Bernie Davis about the murder of twenty-two-year-old photographer, Lorraine Benson, in Raynes Park, south-west London (20/12/88). The police believe...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lorraine Benson murder case (1988)

Genre

Interview

Margaret Shiels interviews Peter Cox about the murder of his friend, twenty-two-year-old photographer Lorraine Benson, in Raynes Park, south-west London (20/12/88). The police believe she may have been the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Increase in London’s rat population (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Julie Benson reports on a 30 percent increase in London’s rat population since the beginning of 1989. Weil’s disease, spread by rat urine in water, is on the increase too especially in the Thames....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Armed Response Vehicles cause controversy (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

Havovi Todd reports on the ARVs, or Armed Response Vehicles, used by the Metropolitan Police. The units contain firearms, which are described here by firearms instructor John Benson. The National Council for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

State of war (1980)

Genre

Feature

State of War. Part of a series presented by Gwynne Dyer. On the possibility of large-scale war in Europe between NATO and Soviet forces. Interviews with Philip Windsor, London School of Economics; John...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Summer solstice activities banned at Stonehenge (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Report on the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge where a nude protest may take place following the banning of any activity near the protected site after violent clashes in previous years. Archive material from...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rock version of Handel to save Mappa Mundi? (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

A sale of shares in Hereford Cathedral’s seven hundred year-old treasure, Mappa Mundi, has flopped. Today is the deadline for selling two thousand, eight hundred shares, and less than half that target...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Christopher Gore sentenced over parent’s killings (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview

Fay Southwell reports on the trial verdict in the case of Christopher Gore at Bristol Crown Court. He’s been sentenced to life imprisonment at Broadmoor Prison after he admitted the manslaughter of his...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio