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Bus drivers pay dispute (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the bus drivers’ chief negotiator Larry Smith on their pay dispute with the Government. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sunday Debate: White Paper on privatisation of bus services (1984)

IRN Local phone-in debate on White Paper to privatise bus services. [Box 5]

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Steve King talks to Alan Clarke (Dire Straits) (1986)

aka: Dire Straits

Excerpts from an interview with North East born Alan Clarke, keyboard wizard with one of the world’s premier rock bands ‘Dire Straits’. Alan gives a rare interview (recorded in the tour bus outside City...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Bus drivers discuss strike from picket line (1993)

Genre

Vox pop

Sandra Khadhouri talks to bus drivers at a picket line in Shepherds Bush. They are striking over wage cuts, longer hours and planned privatisation. For the Drivetime programme.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

National Bus Company annual accounts (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Chairman Lord Shepherd (Malcolm Shepherd) about the annual accounts of the National Bus Company (NBC). Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bus staff attacked (1978)

Genre

Interview

Bill Morgan of London Transport on an assault on a London bus in which several schoolchildren attacked a bus conductor and a bus inspector causing one to need sixteen stitches. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Dave Wetzel on London bus improvement scheme (1981)

Genre

Interview

Bob Holness interviews Dave Wetzel, head of the Greater London Council’s transport committee, about a £600,000 scheme to improve the bus network. Proposals include the introduction of bus lanes.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bus bomb in Jerusalem (1996)

Genre

News report

Reuters’ Susan Sapir in Jerusalem reporting on a bomb blast on a bus in Jerusalem where at least 20 people were killed. Bus was same route number as one blown up previous week. Hamas has claimed...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London bus services (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Larry Smith, National Secretary, TGWU, complains about the inadequate bus service in London.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

London river bus closes down (1993)

Genre

Interview

David Addis interviews Riverbus Chief Executive William Edgerley on the London river bus ceasing operation, why it has shut and if there could ever be another river bus service. He thanks his sponsors.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio