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Telephone numbers change (1995)

Genre

Special

Recording of the BT warning tone, voiced by Faith Hammond, played if you do not dial a phone number with the 1 added in after the 0 as the country changes over to the new telephone numbering system.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Telephone call about the murderer of a Wokingham schoolboy (1986)

A report transmitting a telephone call from a man who believes he knows who is the schoolboy’s killer. He gives name and address of the killer and also knows the car he drives, hoping to help the police to...

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

Telephone numbers change (1995)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Faith Hammond on recording the new alert for BT to tell people about the new 01 telephone numbers being introduced across the country. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New York Telephone Exchange profit on pornographic service (1983)

Genre

News report; Special

Report on the New York Telephone Exchange establishing a special prefix for its new dial a service calls and making a substantial profit from the most successful, taken up by a pornographic magazine....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Splitting postal and telephone services (1979)

Genre

Interview

Tom Jackson, General Secretary of the Postal Workers Union gives his reaction to industry Secretary Keith Joseph’s proposals to split the postal and telephone services.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

BT changes 01 code to 071/081 (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

The London area telephone dialling code switch has passed without too many hiccups. British Telecom’s Bernard Shek(?) (project manager for the 071/081 number change from 01) speaks to Peter Plisner.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

BT trials South London telephone bill scheme (1983)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified British Telecom spokesman on a trial scheme in the South London area which will give customers details of trunk and international calls on their telephone bills and which, if successful, will be...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Post Office profits (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Sir William Ryland about excess profits of 100 million pounds at the Post Office and a rebate to telephone users whilst postal charges are going up. He also comments on the splitting of postal...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ionica radiowave telecoms (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview about Ionica, a radiowave telephone service provider, being granted a licence. On how it works without a fixed line; what this competition will mean to the consumer and BT; how other industries...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio