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  1. Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Occidental Petroleum spokesman Alex Blake-Milton on the demolition of the Piper Alpha oil platform: why they chose to detonate earlier than planned, how the demolition went, relief at its finally having...

    LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
  2. The Business Programme No. 107 (1990)

    The Business Programme No.107, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. TRACK 1- IBM UK’s 1200 jobs shake-up plans. Interview with Sir Leonard Peach, Director of Personnel and Corporate...

    ILR South Radio Online Audio
  3. Red Adair on the Piper Alpha tragedy (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Press conference

    Andy Stenton reports on the aftermath of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster. American troubleshooter, Red Adair, who was brought in to work on the unstable structure talks to press about the scale of the...

    LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
  4. Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    A survivor of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, John Wood describes the inferno which nearly took his life. Alex Blake Milton reveals that the platform was nearly destroyed by a saboteur a year before the...

    LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
  5. Piper Alpha disaster - Previous sabotage attempt (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    After the Piper Alpha disaster, owners Occidental say they did not inform the Department of Energy inspectorate of a sabotage attempt on the platform until ten months after it happened. They say they did...

    LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
  6. Piper Alpha disaster - Occidental compensation (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Following the explosion on the North Sea oil rig, Piper Alpha, which killed 167 men, Occidental Petroleum who own the rig and Disaster Legal who represent many of the families have agreed on an average...

    LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
  7. Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster discuss the attempted sabotage of the rig and express their disbelief. John Wood, who worked on Piper Alpha, says it was terrifying. Bob Ballantyne, who survived the...

    LBC IRN Radio Online Audio