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The Silmarillion discussed (1977)

Genre

Interview

Steve Harvey interviews publisher Rayner Unwin, about the posthumous publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel, The Silmarillion. Style, likely popularity and relation to Lord of the Rings discussed.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sunday Supplement: interview and music programme - Ocean Sound - CD56 (1988)

The CDs from No. 54 to 74, are Sunday Supplements presented by Amanda Ware, single tracks. Either the tapes have been edited, or the programmes ran without commercial breaks. The transmission time is changed...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Short story (1988)

aka: Oh Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad!

Serialised short stories. Drama for radio, by M. R. James, read by Hamish Wilson.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

R W Martin Smith on N Ireland troubles (1976)

Genre

Speech

Speech by delegate R. W. Martin Smith to the Conservative Party conference in Brighton. On life in Ulster, maintaining peace and security in Northern Ireland and fighting to keep the Union.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hayes at the weekend (1977)

Genre

Interview

Brian Hayes speaks to Richard Adams, author of recently-published novel, The Plague Dogs. Adams talks about the subjects of his books, the animation of Watership Down, his reluctance to be typecast as a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Jonathan Aitken on Official Secrets Act (1977)

Genre

Interview

Jonathan Aitken MP on the proposed reform of the Official Secrets Act section 2 and his prosecution and acquittal under the act in 1970. He would like to see it applied to highly sensitive material only....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Speculation over who shot J R (1980)

Genre

News report

Report on bookmakers’ speculation over the identity of the character in American soap opera Dallas who shot the lead character, J R Ewing, played by actor Larry Hagman. And on security for the revealing...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Military intelligence in World War II (1978)

Genre

Interview

Bob Holness interviews Professor R. V. Jones about military intelligence and the invention of radar in World War II; coincides with publication of his autobiography Most Secret War.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Separate Amenities Act scrapped (1990)

Genre

Speech

President de Klerk’s announcement of the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act. Taken from the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) news review of 1989.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Patrick Moore on bureaucracy (1982)

Genre

Interview

Astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore shares his view of bureaucrats and civil servants. The interview coincides with the publication of his book, Bureaucrats: How to Annoy Them, published under the pen name R.T....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio