LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Marchioness disaster appeal fund

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

1 Sep 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:10

Description

Oni Bhattacharya reports on the appeal fund for the 51 victims of the Marchioness riverboat disaster. Includes interviews with Tony Ritchie, mayor of Southwark who started the fund, annoyed at the victims being depicted as affluent yuppies and calling for donations; Keith Wenham, MD of local football team on organising a charity match; Roger Suddards, overseer of the trust fund and Chairman of the Bradford fire trust fund. For AM programme.

Contributors

Tony Ritchie; Oni Bhattacharya; Keith Wenham; Roger Suddards

Keywords

Deaths; London; Charity; Fundraising; Association football; Southwark; Rivers; River Thames; Boats; Disasters (events); AM (radio programme); Marchioness; Bowbelle; Southwark Bridge; Marchioness disaster (1989)

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