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Alabama train derailment kills 47 (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the derailment of an Amtrak train in a swamp area near Mobile, Alabama, USA killing 47 people as it headed for Miami, Florida from Los Angeles, California. Speakers are British survivors Scottish...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

FM testing on new frequency 102.3 MHz - nd [1990]

Only music. [Box 3]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 46, 47, 48. (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 46, 47 and 48.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Train crash in Severn Tunnel (1991)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Press interview with 32-year-old Peter Chanter, a passenger in a sprinter train which crashed into an inter-city express train in the Severn Tunnel (07/12/91) underneath the Bristol Channel injuring 102...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Little Ships set off for Dunkirk (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Seventy Little Ships which took part in the evacuation of British forces from the beaches of Dunkirk fifty years ago are to set off for the French port again this lunchtime. Coastguards say conditions are...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Earl Mountbatten recollects Indian independence (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with The Last Viceroy of India, Earl Mountbatten, recalling the transfer of power of India from Great Britain to the Indians in 1947 and why he chose the date of 15/08/47 (30 years ago today)....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

First official broadcast on FM 102.3 (1990)

Music only. Includes commercials. [Box 3]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Queen Mother revisits East End (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop

The Queen Mother made a nostalgic trip to Rotherhithe in London’s Docklands yesterday, last time she was officially there it was to boost the morale during the Second World War. Steve Kyte reports....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Karl watson sentenced for murder (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview (in two parts, or with break in recording) on the sentencing of Karl Watson (to a minimum of 20 years) at the Old Bailey. Chief Superintendent Pat Crossan tells LBC what kind of person Watson is,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kegworth air disaster report published (1990)

Genre

Interview

John Wolfe, Group Managing Director of Airlines of Britain who own British Midland, welcomes the official report into the 1989 M1 air disaster near Kegworth, which killed 47 people. He describes some of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio