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  • Labour conference-closing speeches (1993)

    Genre
    Music; News report; Speech

    Paul Rowley wraps up as the Labour Party conference comes to an end in Brighton – with traditional singing of the Red Flag and Auld Lang Syne (heard). Leader John Smith has emerged in a stronger...

  • Investigation into Waco raid highly critical (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    A highly critical report has just been released in America into the initial government raid on the Branch Davidian compound of the religious cult led by David Koresh in Waco, Texas. It concluded the blame...

  • Finchley Road explosions injure 4 (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Phone-in; Interview

    Three explosions happened at around 12:20 pm on the Finchley Road, London last night. A spokesman for Scotland Yard confirms four people were injured; LBC listener gives an eyewitness account phoning in to...

  • Prison life museum opens (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Interview

    The Governors of Pentonville and Holloway Prisons have opened the House of Detention underground in Clerkenwell, a museum about prison life in times past. Includes on the museum and prison life then and now...

  • Bombs explode in North London but noone hurt (1993)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Police say the five bombs which ripped through shops in North London this morning in Hornsey, Archway Road and Highgate Village show a sinister change of strategy by the IRA. A sixth device was later made...

  • Army retakes Russian Parliament from rebels (1993)

    Genre
    Special; News report

    Report on the storming by Boris Yeltsin’s troops of the Russian Parliament building, the White House, in Moscow, which had been taken by rebels last night and reports of up to 500 deaths of rebels as a...

  • USA wants to exit Somalia (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Paul Woodley reports on the US wanting to withdraw its troops from the multinational peacekeeping force in Somalia as fighting worsens in Mogadishu and a US helicopter pilot Mike Duran was taken hostage and...

  • Conservative conference - Support for Major (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    The Conservative Party conference opens in Blackpool with rallying calls from government ministers and an attack on the media. The first two debates dealt with agriculture and transport. Includes speeches in...

  • Conservative conference - Thatcher to visit (1993)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Former leader Margaret Thatcher arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool today amid high drama over alleged leaks in the Daily Mirror from her memoirs to be published shortly calling current...

  • BNP councillor attends first council meeting (1993)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Chris Chambers reports from a Tower Hamlets Council evening meeting where the attendance of new Isle of Dogs councillor Derek Beackon of the BNP has caused Anti-Nazi League and anti-racist demonstrations and...