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Freak winds aftermath (1987)

Genre

News report

Ben Brown reports from a helicopter over London on the devastation caused by the freak winds and storms of the night before.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRN Audio of the Decade [part] - nd [1983-1988]

IRN Audio of the Decade [part]. Track 1- 1985; Track 2- 1986; Track 3- 1987; Track 4- 1988; Track 5- End of feed. For the piece on Hungerford in track 3, see also AV769/557/S1. News of 1985: Manchester...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Ben Brown reports from British tanker, Gentle Breeze (1987)

Genre

News report

IRN reporter Ben Brown reports from the British tanker Gentle Breeze, which was attacked by Iranian troops. Subsequently, the Iranian naval ship, Iran Ajr, was attacked by US helicopters after it was...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Eyewitness account of Gibraltar IRA shootings (1988)

Genre

Interview

Three unarmed IRA terrorists have been shot dead in Gibraltar by the SAS. Here an eyewitness who gives his name as Charlie Debono, a local taxi driver, recalls what he saw and what was said at the scene of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Deported hooligan vows to return (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special

Ben Brown interviews English football hooligan, Paul Scarrott, in an East End pub, following his deportation from the European Championships in West Germany. He vows to return. Chanting fans in background.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Norman Fowler on benefit fraud (1988)

Genre

Interview

Ben Brown interviews Employment Secretary Norman Fowler on benefit fraud. Fowler says his dole fraud investigators are saving the country £50million a year. Follows an investigation into benefit fraud in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Deported hooligan (1988)

Genre

News report; Special

Ben Brown interviews English football hooligan, Paul Scarrott, in an East End pub, following his deportation from the European Championships in West Germany. Also includes interview with male Chelsea...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Iran talks delegation (1988)

Genre

Interview

Ben Brown interviews Cyril Townsend MP, one of a four-man, all-party Parliamentary delegation which flew to Iran in an attempt to help the release of the Beirut hostages, Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

P & O dispute - NUS meeting (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Ben Brown reports on a conference of the National Union of Seamen in Hull, where the leadership survived calls for their resignation following the decision to call off secondary picketing in the dispute...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Deported hooligan (1988)

Genre

Interview; Special

Ben Brown interviews English football hooligan, Paul Scarrott, in an East End pub following his deportation from the European Championships in West Germany. He is determined to return despite having being...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio