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Report from oil rig platform (1976)

Genre

News report

Report from the Belford Dolphin semi submersible platform on the North Sea. How the platform works and what it does. Male reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory Report: Mary Rose Report - Sleipner (1979)

Track 2 from AV1/VR3/S1. Documentary programme in Victory Report Series with interviews concerning the fitting out of the recovery vessel Sleipner for use in the raising of the Tudor warship Mary Rose from...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed (1989)

Genre

Interview

Occidental Petroleum spokesman Alex Blake-Milton on the demolition of the Piper Alpha oil platform: why they chose to detonate earlier than planned, how the demolition went, relief at its finally having...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Piper Alpha - Recovery of bodies (1988)

Genre

Interview

The North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha was sunk following an explosion killing 167 men. An unidentified male speaker discusses how they will recover the bodies from the platform, the difficulties they will...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fire on North Sea oil platform? (1989)

Genre

Interview

2 clips, possibly about the Piper Alpha oil platform fire of July 1988. Unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells of his escape from a fire by jumping; another unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Piper Alpha raised from sea bed (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

The North Sea oil platform, Piper Alpha, which was sunk following an explosion which killed 167 men, has been raised from the sea bed. Grampian Police Chief Alistair Lynn says that they do not yet know how...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Brent Spar oil platform fate (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Maurice reports on the possible fate of the Shell Brent Spar oil storage platform. Shell has received two hundred suggestions on how to dispose of the structure following the successful Greenpeace...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

A survivor of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, John Wood describes the inferno which nearly took his life. Alex Blake Milton reveals that the platform was nearly destroyed by a saboteur a year before the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Piper Alpha disaster - Petrie report (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Following the Piper Alpha disaster in which an explosion on a North Sea oil platform killed 167 people, a report from the Department of Energy’s Director of Safety, Jim Petrie, has prompted different...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Piper Alpha oil rig disaster (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

Lisa Hampele reports on the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster where one hundred and sixty-six workers died. Includes interviews with Bob Valentine, survivor, revealing that he reported a gas leak forty-eight...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio