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Commonwealth News - What Mr Lyttleton Saw

Date released

22 Mar 1954

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2109

NoS ID

071427

Story no

10 / 11

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

Malaya - Lady Louis and Red Cross.

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Last Days of the Raj (2007)

Subject

History

This drama-documentary, filmed entirely on location in India, charts the events of six traumatic months in 1947 that saw the end of the British Raj. Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 as...

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Earl Mountbatten montage (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech; Tribute; Vox pop

Montage of clips on the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten by the IRA and his funeral in hometown of Romsey, Hampshire. Includes tributes, reports, interviews. Speakers not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.9: Programme 9 of a weekly news and sports review (1986)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 9 Programme 9 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 12 December 1986. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Earl Mountbatten recollects Indian independence (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with The Last Viceroy of India, Earl Mountbatten, recalling the transfer of power of India from Great Britain to the Indians in 1947 and why he chose the date of 15/08/47 (30 years ago today)....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Countess Mountbatten on Northern Ireland charity (1980)

Genre

Interview

Countess Mountbatten (Patricia Knatchbull), daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten who was killed by a IRA terrorist bomb in 1979, on a charitable scheme aimed at helping disadvantaged children in Northern...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Opening of Thorpe Park (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Report on opening of Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey, Britain’s first theme park. Opening address by Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma. Interviews with Kevin Taylor, marketing manager; Mike Hazelwood,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mountbatten memorial unveiled (1985)

Genre

News report; Speech; Tribute

Report from the unveiling of a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey to Lord Louis and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, on the service and the attendees. Includes readings and tributes during the service from Dame...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lord Mountbatten inquest in Sligo (1980)

Genre

News report

Report on an inquest in Sligo, Ireland (09/01/80) into the deaths of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Doreen Knatchbull (Baroness Brabourne), Nicholas Knatchbull and Paul Maxwell during an IRA bomb attack in 08/79....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRA murder verdicts in Mountbatten case (1979)

Genre

News report

Report on the sentencing of two IRA men charged with the murder of Lord Mountbatten. Thomas McMahon received a life sentence for murder; Frank McGirl was found not guilty of murder and granted bail on a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio