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Sputnik 1 launch - Archive newsreel (1982)

Genre

News report; Special

Archive newsreel broadcast (04/10/57) on the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 – the world’s first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. Male reporter not identified. Sound in mono.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Reading Youth Orchestra - Reel 1 (1980)

Concert at The Hexagon, Reading. [Box 1]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 1 to 4 [Part 1 and 2] (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 1 to 4.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Trevor Dann on Radio 1 censorship of Beatles record (1996)

Genre

Interview

Trevor Dann, BBC Radio 1’s Head of Production, on not playing a newly-released Beatles record. He denies that the decision to exclude it from the Radio 1 playlist constitutes a ban or a snub. Male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Holland 1 submarine lifted from seabed (1982)

Genre

Interview

Telephone interview with Lieutenant John Wakely on the lifting from the seabed off the coast of Cornwall of the Holland 1 - the Royal Navy’s first operational submarine which sank in 1913, three miles from...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Holland 1 submarine resurfaces (1982)

Genre

Interview

Richard Compton-Hall, curator of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport in Hampshire, on the resurfacing of Britain’s oldest submarine, Holland 1. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Former hostage on Kuwait Airways hijack (1988)

Genre

Interview

Former Flight 422 hostage Bert Watson, back home in Gisborough, tells Andy Clewes he is finding it hard to come to terms with what happened to him, and with what is still happening to his fellow passengers.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

John Major conference speech, 13/10/95. Pt 1 (1995)

Genre

Speech

Speech by John Major, Prime Minister, at the 1995 Conservative Party Conference. The address follows his victory in the recent leadership contest. Part 1.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Control tower message to hijacked Kuwaiti airliner crew (1988)

Genre

Speech

Before taking off from Larnaca, Cyprus, for Algiers, the hijackers of the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 allowed twelve hostages to go free. Once the plane was airbourne, the control tower at Larnaca sent...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Harold Wilson on industry, part 1 (1975)

Genre

Speech

Speech by UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson on trade and industry. Part 1. Contains brief musical interlude, possibly accidental recording.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio