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Report onboard flight of Concorde to Gander (1975)

Genre
News report; Speech

Report from the 90th flight of the British Concorde, which is travelling to Gander, Newfoundland. The journey will only take 2 hours, and the report follows the journey from London to Canada. Male reporter...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
The Banks of Newfoundland (1985)

Devised by Sean Street, this programme explores the history of the Dorset fishing trade during the last century, those engaged in which risked life and limb to set up a new living in Newfoundland. The...
ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio
Marconi transatlantic broadcast 80th anniversary (1981)

Genre
News report; Interview; Special

Report on the 80th anniversary and celebrations of the first transatlantic broadcast by Marconi. Includes morse code example; Ron Legerden(?) re-enacting the broadcast, speaking in Cornwall to Newfoundland...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Arrow Air DC8 crash (1985)

Genre
News report; Interview

Report on the crash of Arrow Air Flight 1285, which was carrying 250 US military personnel on a charter flight home for Christmas, in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. An unnamed female airport worker and Staff...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Cerebral palsy girl abandoned (1989)

Genre
News report; Interview

Peter Russell reports on the 15 year old girl with Cerebral Palsy, who was found abandoned on the steps of a cathedral in Canada, includes an interview with the Newfoundland social services minister John...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Proposed Atlantic air balloon crossing (1978)

Genre
Interview

Don Cameron on his proposed crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon. On cutting the distance by starting in Newfoundland rather than the USA, and on the design of the balloon, the influence of wind...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Life of Marconi and the development of the wireless (1989)

Genre
Interview; Documentary

Documentary on the development of sound broadcasting and the wireless and Marconi, the man and his company prominent in that field. Betty Hance, Marconi company historian tells of the early years. Keith...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio