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John Major’s workfare idea (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Interviews with MPs about John Major’s workfare idea where people on the Dole do community work in return for cash: shadow Social Security Secretary Donald Dewar; Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews Interview: Iris Butcher, wife of the founder of James Butcher Housing Association (1982)

Mike Matthews talks to Iris Butcher, the wife of James Butcher, the founder of Housing Association. She talks about her life and how her husband started this project in Reading in 1965. He thought that there...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

The Gospels (1987)

aka: Rick Wakeman interview/music special

It is well over a year since the idea was first mooted that Rick Wakeman might produce something on a Gospel theme for his local church, the United Reform Church at Camberley in Surrey. However, what started...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

National lottery to fund the arts (1991)

Genre

News report; Speech

Julian Smith reports on the Arts Minister Tim Renton speaking to a tourism and leisure conference in Norwich about the idea for a National Lottery to help fund the arts. He supports the idea. Includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

How to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee? (1979)

Genre

Interview

Sir Horace Cutler, leader of the Greater London Council, is interviewed about the idea of holding the World Trade Fair on the derelict Docklands. The idea was put forward as a way of celebrating the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

60 years of radio (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Jingle; Special

The development of sound broadcasting, Guglielmo Marconi, and the wireless and beginnings at Chelmsford, Essex. Betty Hantz, Marconi historian, tells of his life from childhood, his interest in wireless...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Network (1982)

Genre

Discussion; Documentary; Interview; Jingle; Special

60 Years of Radio, originally broadcast by Essex Radio who have set up a radio station in the birthplace of radio, Chelmsford. Betty Hantz, Marconi historian, tells of Marconi’s life from his childhood,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Oman night bus shooting (1978)

Genre

Interview

Christopher Filmer on how he survived a shooting attack on a bus at night in Oman that killed five friends. Has no idea of reasons for attack or identity of attackers. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London proposal (1979)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker (possibly Horace Cutler?) complains about Labour Party scepticism regarding his idea or proposal, which he terms one of the most crucial decisions for London this century. [possibly...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Chapman on why he killed John Lennon (1993)

Genre

Interview

Mark Chapman, murderer of musician John Lennon, speaks from his prison cell of his thoughts immediately prior to the murder and gives some idea of why he did it. Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio