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Use of English in new Russian slang (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the decline of the Russian language among young people in favour of an English-Russian slang called Ruslish and on campaigns against it. Male speaker and interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews People: Mary O Hara (1985)

Mike Matthews talks to Mary O Hara, singer and harpist with a soprano voice. Born 1935 in Ireland, she married the American poet Richard Selig in 1956 and after 15 months of their marriage, he died. She...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Cardboard city: a look at homeless people (1984)

A documentary about the sad problem of the homeless in London. Many people don’t receive social security and live in cardboard boxes, and alcoholism is rife.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Shootings at Sinn Fein (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview

Karen English from Downtown Radio in Ireland reports on the shooting at the Sinn Fein Headquarters in Belfast by an RUC officer who later committed suicide, 3 people were killed. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Margaret Thatcher visits RUC training centre (1988)

Genre

News report; Speech

Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher has visited Northern Ireland and spoken at a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) training centre on the outskirts of Belfast. She spoke with people directly affected by...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Meet a Midshipman scheme (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with unidentified spokesman on Meet a Midshipman scheme for foreign sailors to meet British people and see English countryside. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Language on official forms criticised (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the problems caused by the over-complicated language that people face when reading and filling out official forms. Female speaker and interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Saddam Hussein Gulf War broadcast (1991)

Genre

Speech

Saddam Hussein defiant broadcast to the Iraqi people 4 days into the Gulf War, translated to English. Calls it a holy war or jihad.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New Age Travellers fail to breach Operation Solstice (1992)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Robin Hague reports on a major police operation, codenamed Operation Solstice, in Wiltshire, enforcing a four-mile exclusion zone around Stonehenge, to prevent New Age Travellers from celebrating the Summer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Vietnamese repatriated from Hong Kong (1990)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified (English?) male speaker on the repatriation - forced and voluntary - of Vietnamese people from Hong Kong. He indicates that physical force may be used under certain circumstances. Male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio