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Sputnik 1 launch - Archive newsreel (1982)

Genre
News report; Special

Archive newsreel broadcast (04/10/57) on the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 â the world’s first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. Male reporter not identified. Sound in mono.
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis (1980)

Genre
News report

Archive Movietone newsreel on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, presented by Leslie Mitchell. He describes how Cuban exiles attempted a sabotage mission in Cuba in 1962 amid concern that Fidel Castro had...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
First satellite launch (1987)

Genre
Special

US newsreel of first Soviet satellite launch, the Red Moon, beating the Americans (launch date was 04/10/57). Speaker not identified.
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
First transatlantic jet service-Movietone report (1987)

Genre
News report; Special

Movietone newsreel report presented by Geoffrey Sumner, on the inaugural transatlantic jet service (prob. 04/10/58).
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Pathe newsreeel on the Blitz (1988)

Genre
News report

Archive Pathe newsreel sound commentary on the renewal of the Blitz on London in 1944 during the Second World War and the King and Queen’s visits to the devastated areas.
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
VE Day 50th anniversary (1995)

Genre
Interview; News report; Speech

Adrian Whitfield reports on the 50th anniversary of VE Day and announces events; archive broadcast and speech by Prime Minister Winston Churchill announcing the end of hostilities in Europe in 1945; also...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Queen Mother revisits East End (1988)

Genre
Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop

The Queen Mother made a nostalgic trip to Rotherhithe in London’s Docklands yesterday, last time she was officially there it was to boost the morale during the Second World War. Steve Kyte reports....
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII (1995)

Genre
Interview; News report; Speech

Nick Wood reports on the Japanese surrender fifty years ago that brought the Second World War to an end. Includes speeches by President Harry Truman calling for Japan to surrender and announcing surrender;...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio
Network - The week the world stood still (1983)

Genre
Special; Documentary; Interview; Speech

The Week The World Stood Still. A Network programme, examining the events leading to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The speakers include: US President John F. Kennedy; George Ball, US Deputy Secretary of...
LBC IRN Radio Online Audio