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  1. 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...

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  2. 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...

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  3. Piper Alpha disaster - Occidental compensation (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Following the explosion on the North Sea oil rig, Piper Alpha, which killed 167 men, Occidental Petroleum who own the rig and Disaster Legal who represent many of the families have agreed on an average...

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  4. 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...

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  5. Independent Radio News review of 1988 (1988)

    Genre
    Interview; Music; News report; Obituary; Special

    Independent Radio News Review of 1988, presented by Bill Bingham. With archive pieces by different reporters (including Douglas Cameron, Ben Brown, James Bays and Peter Murphy) on the Piper Alpha explosion,...

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  6. Roger Lyons on on safety in the offshore oil industry (1989)

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    Interview

    Interview on poor safety levels in the North Sea oilfields. The MSF union has ten thousand members who work in the offshore oil industry; union leaders say they have uncovered revelations about the Piper...

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  7. Piper Alpha disaster - Previous sabotage attempt (1989)

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    News report; Interview

    After the Piper Alpha disaster, owners Occidental say they did not inform the Department of Energy inspectorate of a sabotage attempt on the platform until ten months after it happened. They say they did...

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  8. Piper Alpha disaster - Public inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster discuss the attempted sabotage of the rig and express their disbelief. John Wood, who worked on Piper Alpha, says it was terrifying. Bob Ballantyne, who survived the...

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  9. 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...

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  10. 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...

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