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Irish General Election (1981)

Genre

Election coverage; Interview; Music; News report; Speech

Series of items on the General Election in the Republic of Ireland. Report 1: Taoiseach, Charles Haughey and Fine Gael leader Garret FitzGerald on the economy and the H-Block prisoners running as candidates...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Britons on drugs charges in Thailand (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Angela Rippon Drivetime report on Sandra Gregory and Robert Lock, who have been charged in Thailand with drug smuggling, and on the 13 Britons currently serving Thai prison sentences for the offence,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Operation Kingfisher justified in wake of Broadwater Farm riots (1990)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Operation Kingfisher, a drugs raid involving over 400 police officers, began a week before the (5th?) anniversary of the Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, London. Press reporters were invited to witness the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Parliamentary wrap (1979)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

Report on debates in Parliament on government cuts, EEC, prisons, and the length of backbenchers’ speeches in the House of Commons. With speeches from Chief Secretary to the Treasury, John Biffen; former...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Admiral Poindexter found guilty in Irangate trial (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

There has been a third conviction in the Iran-Contra affair, otherwise known as Irangate. Former US President, Ronald Reagan was a defence witness at the trial of Admiral John Poindexter, where saying, I...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.58: Programme 58 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 58 Programme 58 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 29 November 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Nelson Mandela tribute concert, Wembley Stadium (1990)

Genre

Interview; Music; Special

Coverage of the Nelson Mandela tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium on 16/04/90, to celebrate the anti-apartheid campaigner’s recent release from prison. Includes performances by Tracy Chapman singing...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sidney Reso kidnapping - Body found (1992)

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

Paul Woodley reports from New York following the death of Exxon oil company executive, Sidney Reso, after he was kidnapped on 29/04/92. Reso was snatched from the driveway of his house in New Jersey as he...

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Decision makers (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Decision Makers: Hanging, presented by Peter Spencer. On whether hanging is a deterrent, the moral issues and the campaign for Parliament to amend the Criminal Justice Bill and restore capital punishment. We...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The night is young (1989)

Genre

Interview; Discussion; Advertisement; Trailer

The Night is Young with Gill Pyrah on Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg’s new film, based on the book by J G Ballard and set mainly in a Japanese prison camp in the Second World War. Includes interview...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio