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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

Football report on the aftermath of tragedy at Brussels - nd [June 1985]

Football report on the aftermath of tragedy at Brussels - nd [June 1985]. [Box 6]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Freckleton: the lost generation (1984)

A documentary about a tragedy that happened in the small village of Freckleton, in Lancashire, on the 23rd of August of 1944. An American Liberator bomber B-24 42-50291, on a test flight, crashed into the...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Lands End tragedy inquiry (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Rita Lamden, whose son Ricci Lamden drowned off Lands End in Cornwall, during a school visit. She says the families should be allowed to sit in during an inquiry by Buckinghamshire County...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lester Wrap - about the tragedy of Lester Chapman - nd [1975-1986]; Interview with Tony Durant MP

See also AV769/491/S1 report 1. An interview with Tony Durant MP talking about the tragedy, and a report including edited interview. [Box 3]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Aftermath of Waco siege (1993)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

Report on US President Clinton’s first public statement on the Waco siege tragedy at a White House news conference (with excerpts heard), standing by Janet Reno and blaming cult leader David Koresh for the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Clapham Rail Disaster (1988)

A special report about today’s tragedy [12-12-1988] at the Clapham Junction, London. A crash between three trains, one of them left Bournemouth this morning at 5 minutes to 7 o clock crouded with people....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Campsite gas explosion in Spain (1978)

Genre

News report

Report on the aftermath of the Tarragona campsite gas explosion in Spain (11/07/78). Covers the survivors and the inquiry into the tragedy.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Relative on Penlee lifeboat disaster (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the father of a victim of the Penlee lifeboat disaster (19/12/81), following the verdict in the inquest into the tragedy. Male speaker and female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Floods collapse railway bridge in Wales (1987)

Genre

Interview; News report

Welsh Secretary Peter Walker at the scene of the collapsed bridge over the River Tywi after flooding which claimed four lives in a railway tragedy at Llandeilo. Reporter not identified. Ends abruptly.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio