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Ariane failure and loss of satellites (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Guntis Berzins of Inmarsat on the failure of the first commercial space flight of the European rocket Ariane together with the loss of the Marecs B and Siro satellites. Includes sound of...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.14: Programme 14 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 14 Programme 14 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 23rd January 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Duncan Campbell on the Zircon programme on spy satellites (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Duncan Campbell, investigative journalist and television producer on the Zircon BBC television programme on spy satellites he produced and the New Statesman article and them not posing a risk...

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Ariane space launcher (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with space expert, Ian Ridpath, about the success of the European Space Agency, particularly the shuttle, Ariane, which will be used to launch satellites. Male interviewer not identified.

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McWhirter on Zircon injunction (1987)

Genre

Interview

Norris McWhirter, founder of the Freedom Association, on the Freedom Association’s attempts to stop the Zircon BBC television documentary on spy satellites being shown at public meetings and the reasons...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Soviet satellite crash (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Jeff Harwell, Canadian Department of National Defence on possible radioactivity of nuclear-powered Soviet satellite which crashed in northern Canada on 24/01/78. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Cosmos 1402 satellite out of control (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with amateur astronomer Geoff Perry of Kettering Boys School on the Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402 which was thought to be out of control and likely to crash on Earth, and its self-destruction by a...

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Space shuttle Discovery launches smoothly (1984)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Special

Andrew Manderstam reports on the launch of the US space shuttle Discovery after several recent postponements due to technical problems and on its mission including putting communication satellites into...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Arthur C. Clarke on satellite communication (1974)

Genre

Interview

Science fiction novelist Arthur C Clarke on the advance of satellite communication, the ability of satellites to broadcast television, the effects on the energy crisis, the role of science fiction in getting...

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Christopher H on tour of Met Office (1976)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Christopher H goes on a tour of the Meteorological Office in London. Speaks to unidentified male staff member on unusual hot and dry weather in the UK looking at their charts; Ralph Hardy, senior forecaster...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio