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Wandsworth prison dispute ends (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the end of a dispute involving prison officers at Wandsworth prison in South London. The dispute originated when the prison governor tried to introduce new shift arrangements. Includes interviews...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Report about the murderer of 4-year-old Marie Payne - nd [1975-1986]

A report on the murder and the news that they found the killer of the little girl. A 44-years-old lorry driver, his name Evans. He received a sentence of 30 years in prison. The police described him as an...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Attempted breakout at Wandsworth Prison (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Graham Majin reports on an attempted breakout at Wandsworth Prison in which a mechanical digger was used. Terry McLaren, Branch Secretary of the Prison Officers Association and Wandsworth Prison Governor...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prison officer on Learmont Report (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Mariita Eager interviews Neil Mason, Secretary of the Prison Officers Association at Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight following recommendations on prison security in the Learmont Report.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Early opening of Frankland Prison (1980)

Genre

News report

Report on the early opening of the new Frankland Prison near Durham as a result of emergency measures introduced by Home Secretary, William Whitelaw during a strike by prison officers. Male reporter not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British prison crisis (1981)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the crisis in British prisons. Prison Officer’s Association District Secretary at Strangeways Prison, Peter Hancocks(?) and Prison Warder Brian Baldwin, comment on conditions at the prison and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Attempted breakout at Wandsworth Prison (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Simon Bowden reports on a chain of attempted breakouts from Wandsworth Prison in London. He interviews Terry McLaren, Branch Secretary of the Prison Officers Association; Peter McParlin(?), Senior Prison...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prison officers suspended at Wandsworth prison (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Mark Percy reports on a dispute at Wandsworth Prison in South London, where prison officers were locked out for refusing to cooperate with new working practices imposed by the prison governor. Includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prison reforms after Brixton breakout (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male speaker from Wandsworth Prison on the report by Judge Stephen Tumin, Chief Inspector of Prisons, on prison security, and the Home Secretary Kenneth Baker’s new proposals...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prison service problems (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report after a second riot at Everthorpe Prison on Humberside, the escape of 3 prisoners from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, and the suicide of alleged serial killer Fred West before his trial as the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio