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People Express airline decision (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the UK Government’s decision to allow the American People Express low budget airline to fly from Newark airport in the United States to London Gatwick. Male speaker and interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Advertisement No.4 - nd [Jan-Feb 1977; track 82 Aug 1976]]

Track 1- Southern Tyre Services [start missing due to tape breakage]; [0:20 sec]. Track 2- Unirents, 15ips [0:35 sec]. Track 3- Frank Wilkins, 15ips [0:35 sec]. Track 4- Discount Carpet Centre, 15ips [0:17...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

People Express first flight (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male American speaker (not identified) after the inaugural flight of the People Express low budget airline from Newark airport in the United States to London Gatwick. Male interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

People Express first flight (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male American speaker (not identified - poss. company president Donald Burr) after the inaugural flight of the People Express low budget airline from Newark airport in the United States to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Denis Quilley on his theatre directorial debut (1988)

Genre

Interview

British actor Denis Quilley talks about his directorial debut- Special Occasions by Bernard Slade at the Viceroy Pub theatre in Swiss Cottage, London and the formation of NAUK - a group formed to establish a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

US hostages released - Hostages’ reaction (1981)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Press interview with freed US hostages, who express their feelings about their release following 444 days of Iranian captivity in Tehran. Speakers include Kathryn Koob.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British evacuees arrive back from Beirut (1984)

Genre

News report; Interview

Civilians arriving back at Heathrow Airport express relief after being evacuated from Beirut, Lebanon. Surveyor Len Orton(?) describes the ordeal as devastating. The families were evacuated to Cyprus before...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British Leyland sell-off deadline (1986)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

Report on the sale of the Leyland motor companies. Michael Heseltine MP urges Industry Secretary Paul Channon to allow more time for decision-making on the British Leyland sell-off. Labour Trade and Industry...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mikhail Gorbachev takes part in Question Time (1993)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Music; Speech; Poetry

Report on the visit of former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev to London, where he took part in a special edition of Question Time at Westminster Central Hall. Former Speaker of the House, Lord (Bernard)...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

US bomber explodes over Oxfordshire homes (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Terrified villagers flooded police with calls during the night when the sky above a US nuclear base lit up with flames. A fireball erupted above Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire when an American F1-11 bomber...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio