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Growth of skateboarding (1978)

Genre

Interview

Professional skateboarders Dave McIntyre and Stacy Peralta discuss the rise in popularity of the sport of skateboarding. In Europe the sport is growing, and McIntyre calls for local councils to build skate...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.92: Programme 92 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 92 Programme 92 of a weekly news and sports review called OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK broadcast by an independent radion station OCEAN SOUND on 31st July 1988 Presented by PETE WARDMAN....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Possible London Olympic games (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with GLC leader Sir Horace Cutler, on the athletic facilities in London, and the possibility of the city hosting the Olympic games should an international boycott of the Moscow games in 1980 take...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Manchester loses 2000 Olympic bid (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Chairman of Manchester 2000 Bob Scott about Manchester’s failure to secure the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, the second time they’ve lost a bid. He says he’s undecided over a future bid....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Steve Jones show (1988)

Genre

Interview; Advertisement; Trailer

Steve Jones show with special guest Neil Adams, judo champion who will be competing in the upcoming Olympic games in Seoul, Korea. On training in France that inspired him; the sport in Britain; mental...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Moscow Olympics boycott (1980)

Genre

Speech

Speech by United States Vice-President Walter Mondale in Colorado Springs in which he urges the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to support the US boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, following...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

1988 Olympic Games opening ceremony (1988)

Genre

News report; Speech

Commentary and comment from the 1988 Olympic Games opening ceremony and lighting of the Olympic Flame in Seoul, South Korea. The Great Britain team is watched by John Anderson of IRN Sport - the athletics...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Olympic Games boycott - MP’s view (1980)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male opposition MP (poss. former UK sports minister Denis Howell) criticises the attempts of some sports bodies to set up events in competition to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games following a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Roger Bannister on 4 minute mile (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Roger Bannister, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his running the first four minute mile in 1954. He also speaks about the forthcoming Olympic Games in Moscow. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

MP on sporting boycotts (1979)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male MP on sporting boycotts including the English cricket team’s refusal to play in South Africa, and the possible withdrawal by the Great Britain team from the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio