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Denis Howell comments on Panorama programme (1977)

Genre

Interview

Sport and Recreation Minister Denis Howell on Millwall football fans who have incited violence; he describes television coverage of the hooligans on the Panorama programme, and comments on how it was shown...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.12: Programme 12 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 12 Programme 12 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 9 January 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

The Last wimpy (1985)

This documentary looks at the rescue of the world’s last surviving wartime Wellington Bomber from the depths of Loch Ness. The programme was recorded entirely as actuality, and we hear from all sides of the...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

GLC Thames Day Extravaganza (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Report from the GLC’s public event, Thames Day. The activities are described, and Barbara Bate from Westminster Muscular Dystrophy; Lord Birkett (GLC director for recreation and the arts); and Londoners...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Denis Howell on football hooligans (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Denis Howell, Sports Minister, on football hooligans coinciding with a debate on the Government’s White Paper on sport and recreation. On decision to exclude fans from outside of Manchester...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Effect on arts funding of GLC abolition plans (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a GLC spokesman on the projected 20 million pound loss of London arts funding, including spending on culture, recreation and sport, if Government plans to abolish the GLC go ahead in 1986 and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

GLC goldfish campaign (1983)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on a campaign by the Greater London Council to ban the awarding of live goldfish as prizes at fairgrounds. Includes interviews with: GLC arts and recreation chairman Tony Banks; General Secretary of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mickey Duff on controversial boxing match (1988)

Genre

Interview

Nicky Broyd interviews boxing promoter Mickey Duff on the controversial on-off world title fight between local Jim McDonnell and South African Brian Mitchell at the Elephant and Castle recreation centre...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

USSR boycotting LA Olympics (1984)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the Soviet Union boycotting the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, USA ostensibly due to fears for safety of athletes due to anti-Soviet feeling. With comment from Soviet ambassador in London Ginari...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New media complex planned for West London (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Plans to develop a media complex on a 150-acre greenfield site at Hillingdon, West London, were announced today by Warner Bros. and the media group MAI. The complex would provide more studio space for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio