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723 results found for '"Operations"' in Keywords.
D-Day landings archive recordings (1974)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
A selection of archival BBC radio clips on the D-Day landings. The first is the announcement of the D-Day landings, including a report from a bomber plane on a mission as they fly over the invasion. The next...
Towards 2000 - Future of the military (1977)
- Genre
- Special
Towards 2000 with former Field Marshal Michael Carver looking at the past 25 years of military history and looking forward at the next 23 years. Including who may cause a threat, who our allies will be and...
Granville rail disaster (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Douglas Cameron? interviews Tony Townsend? on the Granville rail disaster near Sydney in Australia and the rescue operation.
Bucharest earthquake (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Alan Clark interviews Richard Dorman from the British embassy in Bucharest, Romania, on the damage caused by the Vrancea earthquake (04/03/77).
Bucharest earthquake rescue efforts (1977)
- Genre
- News report
Michael Lockley(?) reports on rescue operations in Bucharest, and other towns and cities in Romania, following the Vrancea earthquake (04/03/77).
Minimising oil spill damage (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on minimising the damage done by an oil spill (possibly from the tanker, Amoco Cadiz, which ran aground off Brittany on 16/03/78). Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White).
Amoco Cadiz oil spill (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the operation to minimise the damage done by an oil spill from the tanker, Amoco Cadiz (16/03/78). Female interviewer not identified.
Catherine Crutchett on daughter’s operation (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Catherine Crutchett of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, on the operation that left her daughter, Judith, brain damaged. Judith was awarded £150,000 damages after she stopped breathing in the recovery...
Iranian earthquake (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Telephone interview on an earthquake in Tabas, Iran in September 1978, casualties and the ongoing rescue and rebuilding work. Female studio reporter and male speaker. Audio muffled.
Missing boy Lester Chapman (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on divers being brought in to help search for a body in the case of missing boy Lester Chapman,8, from Reading in Berkshire. His body was later found on a rubbish tip and he was found to have died...