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The sound effects business (1981)

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Special

LBC Special: The Sound Effects Business. Focuses on the KPM company, and creating sound effects and music for radio and television. Interviews with Peter Cox, Library Manager, KPM; Keith Mansfield, composer.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

A Year in Sound: Ocean Sound in 1988 - nd [1989]

A Year in Sound: Ocean Sound in 1988 - nd [1989], including the Station’s community spirit. Presented by Chris Carnegy, with Chairman Phillip Pollock, Managing Director David Lucas and others. [Box 9]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Aberfan: an unknown Spring (1986)

aka: Aberfan: an unknown Spring

A documentary about the devastating disaster in Aberfan, Wales. A portrait in sound of villages clinging to the hills and the mass grave that marks the site of Aberfan, where 134 young children lost their...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

1980s news clips - Ronald Reagan sound check (1989)

Genre

Speech

Sound check by US President, Ronald Reagan, in which he says the bombing of Russia will begin in five minutes. His words are spoken playfully and the clip was not intended for broadcast! Includes laughter...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Cohen and wireless (1974)

Genre

Drama; Special

Joe Hayman’s Cohen and Wireless, a comedy sketch about buying wireless recorded in 1928. Sound quality poor and in mono.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

UK common cold research unit closes (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Jo Bishop reports on the closure of Britain’s only common cold research unit, in Salisbury. The centre’s been battling with the virus for 43 years, but now it’s closing down without finding a cure....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Briton escapes Kuwait (1990)

Genre

Interview

British oil technician John Osgerby(?), now returned to his family in Hampshire, on the difficulties of escaping from Kuwait by driving across the desert. Interviewer not heard. Originally broadcast on Ocean...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Emergence of compact discs (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview about the emergence of compact discs and digital recordings and what it will mean for buying music in the future. Male speaker and interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Broadwater Farm riots sound effects (1985)

Genre

Special

Series of recordings of sound effects (helicopters, sirens, riot shields) from the Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, North London (06/10/85).

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Prince Charles opens Ocean Sound radio (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Report on Prince Charles, Prince of Wales opening the new ILR (Independent Local Radio) station for Portsmouth and Southampton - Ocean Sound - at its Fareham studios. Includes interview with Prince Charles,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio