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Interview about an explosion (1986)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified female speaker on what she remembers of an explosion. She describes the scene and what she did to get out of the smoke-filled building (an office block?). She says she did not smell gas. Male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

George Hotel Fire (1981)

2 reports on 02-05-1981 [?]. Three people have died in a hotel fire at Reading in Berks. Firemen found the bodies of two men and a woman as they searched through the smokefilled rooms of the historic George...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Capital Playhouse - Faces in the smoke [Part 1 and 2] (1984)

A radio play in 2 parts telling a story about a country family moving house and facing a new life in the big city.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Fire safety on planes (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview on fire safety on planes and the decision smoke hoods are not the answer after they analysed accident data and consulted experts. And on using water sprays as an alternative. Male interviewer and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gulf War -smoking building (1991)

Genre

News report

Report on smoke pouring out of a building completely covering their location. Male US reporter not identified. No context but may refer to Gulf War attacks on Baghdad.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kings Cross fire disaster (1987)

Genre

Interview

Commuter John Hickson of Peckham says he reported the smell of burning on the escalator and smoke at Kings Cross Underground before the fire but no one was interested. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Thatcher on immigration (1978)

Genre

News report; Speech

Coverage of Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher’s speech to the Young Conservatives on immigration. Thatcher attacks smoke screen socialists who accuse the party of racism when it brings the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Nicolas Vogel arrested in Belfast (1989)

Genre

Interview

Interview with editor-in-chief of the French photography agency, Gamma, Floris de Bonneville, about the arrest of German photographer, Nicolas Vogel, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after police found smoke...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Blaze on Sally Star ferry off Kent (1994)

Genre

News report

Paul Kent reports while flying over the scene after over 100 people were rescued from a blazing ferry in the English channel off the Kent coast. The Sally Star was sailing from Dunkirk to Ramsgate. A fire...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kings Cross fire disaster (1987)

Genre

Interview

Report on the Kings Cross Underground fire referring to earlier Oxford Circus station fire. Including eyewitness account by Andy Crowan(?); Kings Cross station manager on investigating the fire, he was...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio