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Weston-super-Mare mother describes attempted child abduction (1990)

Genre

Interview

A mother from Weston-super-Mare has been describing the moment when a couple said they had come to take her daughter away. The woman, who wishes to be known only as Caroline, is the latest victim in a wave...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Breakfast Club wind-ups - nd [July 1985]

Breakfast Club wind-ups - nd [July 1985]. Tracks 1 and 2- Mrs Jean Mason on washing machine; Tracks 3 and 4- Mr Mike Newman on his step-son wanting to seel anything to anybody...; Track 5- BBO Farmers, on a...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

The Birmingham Super Prix (1986)

aka: Super Prix: the race that took 15 years

On 24/25th August Birmingham will host the first ever motor racing ‘on the streets’ event. It’s a first for the city and the UK and the aim is eventually to get Formula 1 Grand Prix racing on Birmingham...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Railway workers vote against strike action (1986)

Genre

Interview

The NUR have voted against industrial action, during a proposed takeover bid by a US company. Mark Mardell? interviews union leader Jimmy Knapp at their conference in Weston-super-Mare, he says the fight...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jerry Wiggin corruption admission (1995)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Melissa White-Adams, Chairman of Weston-super-Mare Conservative Association, on the admission by local MP, Sir Jerry Wiggin that he used fellow MP Sebastian Coe’s name without his...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Railway workers vote against strike action (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report

Mark Mardell reports on the vote against strike action by the National Union of Railwaymen during a proposed takeover by a US firm. Includes interviews with union leader Jimmy Knapp at their conference in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jerry Wiggin’s apology for corruption (1995)

Genre

Speech; Parliamentary debate

House of Commons speech by Sir Jerry Wiggin MP, apologising for using fellow MP Sebastian Coe’s name without his knowledge to table amendments to a bill in Standing Committee in which he had a financial...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jerry Wiggins corruption affair (1995)

Genre

Speech; Parliamentary debate

House of Commons speech by Speaker Betty Boothroyd referring to the apology by Jerry Wiggin for using fellow MP Sebastian Coe’s name without his knowledge to table amendments to a bill in Standing...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jerry Wiggin corruption affair (1995)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour Party MP, Bill Michie, who is not satisfied by the apology by Conservative Jerry Wiggin for using fellow MP Sebastian Coe’s name without his knowledge to table amendments to a bill...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Briton tells of escape from Kuwait (1990)

Genre

Interview

Patricia Maine(?) of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, tells how she and her family escaped from Iraq-occupied Kuwait. She talks about the conditions there, the movement of chemical weapons, violence towards...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio