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Mercury cuts jobs (1994)

Genre

Interview

Telephone operator Mercury is to cut a quarter of its workforce over the next 12 months through voluntary redundancies and scrap its public phone boxes to remain competitive. Chief Executive of Mercury...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory Report: Niton Radio Station IOW (1979)

Documentary with interviews about Post Office coast radio station at Niton IOW and trial of alarm call system Selcall. Track 1- Music - Niton radio IOW operates from new site established in 1975. Is one of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

What is life? The Story of Kathleen Ferrier (1987)

'What is Life’ is the story of the Lancashire telephone operator who became one of Britain’s foremost concert singers, and the greatest contralto of her time. Tragically, Kathleen Ferrier died of cancer at...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Ugandan situation after Tanzania invades (1979)

Genre

Interview

Reporter John Greenwood speaks via telephone to a male operator at Radio Uganda and an official at the Ministry of Information (both not identified) in an attempt to gain clarification of the political...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Doctor’s refusal to treat man (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a post office telephone operator named Harry Autton who criticises the behaviour of surgeon at Battle Hospital, Reading, Dr. Patrick Chesterman, for refusing to treat a hip problem, due to...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio