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Gas explosion in Nottinghamshire (1977)

Genre

Interview

Accounts by an eyewitness and her stepfather of a gas explosion and fire in Newark, Nottinghamshire (15/01/77) and the rescue of an old man (Charles Lambert) from under a gas cooker, which had caused the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

National Garden Festival (1986)

The National Garden Festival in Stoke-on-Trent will be Europe’s largest horticultural and leisure event this year - it begins in May and among the major attractions will be the eighty theme gardens

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Hughie Green insults Radio Trent reporter (1978)

Genre

Interview

Talk show host Hughie Green insults Radio Trent reporter John Darby (and other people from Toronto) after Darby questions him about the end of his show, Opportunity Knocks. Among other things, Green calls...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Radio Trent launch (1975)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male spokesman (not identified) on the launch of Radio Trent (03/07/75) - the 13th local commercial radio channel. The station’s wavelength will cover Nottinghamshire, into Leicestershire...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Julie Dart murdered by Michael Sams (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Ian Booth reports on how Michael Sams kidnapped and murdered Leeds prostitute Julie Dart at his workshop in Newark, he has just been sentenced for this and kidnapping of Stephanie Slater. Retired head of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Press conference with British escapee from Kuwait (1990)

Genre

Interview

Medical technician Peter Bunting from Nottingham, one of the last workers to flee Iraq-occupied Kuwait, talks about finding a route across the desert to the Saudi border. Interview (by unidentified female,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Chopper crash near school (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Gary Moran reports on the crash of a helicopter belonging to JCB near a school on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border with one person killed. Includes eyewitness accounts from Ron Carpenter and Dury...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pay vote shock for UDM (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Roy Lynk, President of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM), on the decision by members to reject two proposed Coal Board pay offers. He says he will not resign despite the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British pensioner sought asylum in Sweden (1990)

Genre

Interview

70 year-old Derbyshire pensioner, Ken King says he was deadly serious in applying for political asylum in Sweden after being unable to pay his poll tax. (King’s application was rejected). Male interviewer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Peter Thompson & Lorraine Underwood murder (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified spokesman for Derbyshire Police (poss. Peter Bayliss) on information received from a girl identified as Kathy, on the murders of Peter Thompson and Lorraine Underwood in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio