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Queen opens new bridge at Dartford (1991)

Genre

Speech

The Queen officially opens the new Queen Elizabeth II Bridge across the lower Thames at Dartford. She talks about the benefits of the new road bridge, and the history of the building project. In two parts.

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Various reports and interviews - nd [1979]

Various reports and interviews. No info, no date, apart from track 1 to 5- Reading Festival 1979; Track 6- Popmobility aerobics; Track 7- Governor of Reading Prison; Track 8 and 9- Chief Constable of Thames...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Work commences on new Severn bridge (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Malcolm Brown reports on the start of work on a new toll bridge linking England and Wales which is intended to lessen the pressure on the Severn Bridge and has been funded mainly by private enterprise. The...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Queen opens new bridge at Dartford (1991)

Genre

News report; Speech; Music

The Queen has officially opened the new Queen Elizabeth II Bridge across the lower Thames at Dartford. She talks humorously about the benefits of the new road bridge. A brass band plays in the background....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Skye bridge - Alternative ferry (1995)

Genre

Interview

The final section of the Skye toll bridge will be lowered into place today, joining the island to the Scottish mainland for the first time. The bridge is expected to bring more tourists to the island and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New Thames bridge-safety should be priority in design (1989)

Genre

Interview

In the light of the Marchioness river boat tragedy, there’s been calls today for the public inquiry to be reopened into plans for a new bridge across the Thames to the Docklands development site, to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Queen unveils new M25 bridge (1991)

Genre

News report; Speech

Karen Mills and an unidentified male reporter on the Queen’s opening of the new privately funded Queen Elizabeth II bridge in London to get around the Dartford Tunnel. With fanfares; singing of national...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

25th anniversary of Hungarian uprising (1981)

Genre

Interview

Author and emigrant Monica Porter talks about her new book, The Paper Bridge: A Return to Budapest, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London Bridge, TV soap (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Lizzie Knight reports on the launch of London Bridge - a new London-based TV drama produced by Carlton and set in a Thames-side restaurant. Rosalind March who plays Liz Kemp and Sean Francis who plays her...

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Nicholas Boyce trial for wife’s murder (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tim Crook reports on the trial at the Old Bailey of Nicholas Boyce, who murdered his wife, Christabel, and chopped and cooked her remains before disposing of her body in the River Thames at Hungerford...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio