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Thomson cuts its package holidays and raises prices (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Julie Sedgwick reports on a business reorganisation by Britain’s biggest tour operators, Thomson Holidays. They are scrapping half a million of their package holidays in an attempt to rid the industry of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Tricia Crocker talks about the murder of her husband in the Caribbean nd [Feb 1982]

See also AV769/397/S1. An interview with Tricia Crocker, the widow of Mike Crocker murdered on their boat [yacht] when they were on holidays sailing in the Caribbean. [Nin [?] is the name of the boat where...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Taking Off: a serial of holiday programmes (1984)

aka: Capital Thursday

A series of programmes which suggest many holiday ideas in an entertaining fast-moving format. The programmes are as follows: 1) General introduction, including a holiday on Crete; celebrity guests are...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Charlie Chaplin tribute (1977)

Genre

Interview; Obituary

Miss Isobel Ian, manageress of a Scottish hotel, talks about the late Charlie Chaplin’s family holidays there, 1971-1973. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Laker on airline service (1983)

Genre

Interview

Freddie Laker replies to the question, what guarantees can he offer airline customers that they will not be fooled again? He talks about the demise of Laker Airways in 1982, insurance, Skytrain Holidays, and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Decision makers (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Decision Makers: Timeshare Accommodation (Holidays), presented by Judith Dawson. Examines boom in purchase of timesharing property in the UK market; problems with the industry and the possibility of rogue...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Holiday 261 (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Music

Di Latham presents Holiday 261, focusing on holidays in the USA in America’s bicentennial year. Includes interviews in the USA with Reg Pycroft from Jetsave about fly drive holidays. Travel writer Eunice...

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From Russia with love (1981)

Genre

Documentary; Special

From Russia With Love. Phil Dixon visits the USSR including Moscow and Leningrad and looks at holidays in Russia and the Soviet Union. Network programme, originally from Radio Trent for their Getaway...

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Child sex trade in Asia (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male representative for the Anti-Slavery Society (not identified – poss. Chairman Jeremy Swift?) on the sex trade in South East Asia, the exploitation of children and package holidays...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Decision makers (1983)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Summer holiday bookings are down 30% on last year. Decision Makers looks at whether the recession is catching up with the holiday industry? The Marketing Director of holiday company Thomson believes it may...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio