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Frederick Carter dies after street beating (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Doreen Carter, the widow of 64-year-old Frederick Carter, killed by three black youths who beat him and stole his keys in New Cross, London. Doreen describes her late husband and appeals for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

After 8: Call 01-2015-2121; Features: family history/ghosts (1980)

First day of transmission. Off-air tapes include music, news, commercials, phone-ins, competitions, features. NB repeats of new stories etc. Family history at 4 mins, 12 mins; Ghosts at 24 mins, 32 mins, 39...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 64, 65. (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes, by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 64 and 65.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Dracula: episode 28, 29, 30. (1986)

A great classical novel in 65 episodes by Bram Stoker, read by Hamish Wilson. This recording is episodes 28, 29 and 30.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Mind your own business: episode 21 to 30 (1984)

A serial of programmes looking at starting your own business, illustrating all the steps that need to be done, giving an example with an electrician opening his own business. Episode 21 to 30. Twelve tracks

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Ronnie Biggs on exile (1995)

Genre

Interview

Lizzie Knight speaks to Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, who escaped from Wandsworth Prison 30 years ago today after serving just over a year of a 30-year sentence for his part in the mail train raid in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Editor on embassy siege book (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male Sunday Times journalist (poss. Paul Eddy?) on the publication of Siege!: Princes Gate, London, April 30-May 5 – a book about the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980, compiled...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lowest inflation rate for 30 years splits opinion (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on political reaction to the drop in inflation, which is at the lowest figure for 30 years. With mixed views from Chancellor Norman Lamont; shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown; Liberal Democrat economic...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Political career of Nicholas Ridley following his death (1993)

Genre

News report; Obituary; Speech

Former Conservative minister Lord Nicholas Ridley has died from lung cancer at the age of 64. Des Fahy looks back on his political career, marked by an easy arrogance and outspokenness which earned him many...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Death of artificial heart recipient (1996)

Genre

Interview

A south-west London man believed to be the first in the world to receive a permanent artificial heart has died in hospital. 64 year-old Abel Goodman was given the battery-powered pump last October to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio