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Gordon Banks tribute following death of Bobby Moore (1993)

Genre

Tribute

1966 England football World Cup team goalkeeper Gordon Banks on his devastation at footballer Bobby Moore’s sudden death from cancer aged 51. Moore led the 1966 team to victory. Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Portsea Island Discs: Alan Ball, Manager of Portsmouth Football Club (1985)

The guest this week is Alan Ball, Jr, the manager of Portsmouth Football Club. His real name is Alan James Ball Jr, and he was born in May 12, 1945. He is one of the few people to win the utmost prize World...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Aberfan: an unknown Spring (1986)

aka: Aberfan: an unknown Spring

A documentary about the devastating disaster in Aberfan, Wales. A portrait in sound of villages clinging to the hills and the mass grave that marks the site of Aberfan, where 134 young children lost their...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Underground fires at Aberfan (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the closure of a school in Aberfan - where 114 people died in 1966 as a result of a landslide - following the discovery of underground fires. Includes interviews with local education officer Eddie...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Nevado del Ruiz erupts causing mudslide (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a scientific expert about the eruption of the volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, in northern Colombia in 11/85, whether the deaths could have been prevented and compares the mudslide to the Aberfan tip...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bobby Charlton tribute following the death of Bobby Moore (1993)

Genre

Tribute

Bobby Charlton, one of the 1966 World Cup winning England football team, pays tribute to Bobby Moore’s unifying role as a great player, but argues he will mostly be missed as a man. Follows Moore’s...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rhodesia talks 1966 in Gibraltar (1980)

Genre

Press conference

Archive recording from 14/10/66 of a press conference featuring UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson as he leaves Gibraltar after talks with Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith over the issue of white minority...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Michael Randle and Pat Pottle on George Blake escape (1989)

Genre

Interview

Michael Randle and Pat (Patrick) Pottle talk about organising the escape in 1966 of convicted spy George Blake, why they did it, why they are talking about it now, and what they will do if they are charged....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Two face charges over George Blake escape (1989)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male speaker (probably either Michael Randall or Patrick Pottle) about claims made in a book (probably The Blake Escape) that he had helped George Blake, the double agent, escape from...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

President de Klerk announces the repeal of discriminatory acts (1991)

Genre

Speech; Special

President F. W. de Klerk (addressing the South African Parliament?) announces the forthcoming repeal of the Land Acts of 1930 and 1936, the Population Registration Act 1950, the Group Areas Act 1966, and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio