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Peter Greenaway on Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Genre

Interview

Carol Allen interviews British film director, Peter Greenaway about his new film, Drowning by Numbers. The film is a clever mixture of visual and literary puns, but as Peter Greenaway explains, there is a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Padworth School (1980)

An interview with the Headmaster of Padworth School. Should be closed or not? Half of the School has been empty. The numers of pupils are diminishing every year and he thinks despite the lower level of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Hangman: a documentary (1987)

aka: Albert Pierrepoint interview

Albert Pierrepoint was Britain’s most famous executioner during the 1930s-50s. Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung in Britain, numbers amongst those he executed. In this programme Pierrepoint talks about...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Gulf War - Civilian death claims (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on an Iraqi claim that civilians have been killed by the Allied aerial attacks, the dispute over the numbers of deaths, and where the claims of numbers have come from. With comment from military...

LBC IRN 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

Police numbers in Northern Ireland (1994)

Genre

Speech

Excerpt of speech by Hugh Annesley, Chief Constable of the RUC, on the future of the force, advising against a sudden cut of police numbers in Northern Ireland. Written shortly before the shooting dead in an...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lord King on falling passenger numbers at British Airways (1986)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Lord King of Wartnaby, Chairman of British Airways, about a decline in air passenger numbers as a result of terrorism. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Paul Maurice).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

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

Los Alfaques Disaster (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified male Spanish speaker about an explosion at the Los Alfaques campsite in Tarragona, on the coast between Barcelona and Valencia in Spain (11/07/78). The accident happened when a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Decline in marine mammals off Britain (1987)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified speaker describes the decline in marine mammals along the British coastline. He believes the drop in whale and dolphin numbers is mainly down to marine pollution. He is organising a lookout by...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio