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World War II-children evacuated (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Archive broadcast from Waterloo Station at the beginning of World War Two reporting on the evacuation of children from London. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of...
World War II-children evacuated (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Archive broadcast from Waterloo Station at the beginning of World War Two reporting on the evacuation of children from London. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of...
World War II-Richard Dimbleby by a French road (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Archive BBC news broadcast by Richard Dimbleby reporting from a French road as he watches an Irish regiment march by. Originally broadcast 15/10/39. Includes sound of bagpipes. The recording was broadcast on...
Thomson cuts its package holidays and raises prices (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Julie Sedgwick reports on a business reorganisation by Britain’s biggest tour operators, Thomson Holidays. They are scrapping half a million of their package holidays in an attempt to rid the industry of...
Peter Scott dies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Obituary
Peter Russell reports on the death of naturalist Sir Peter Scott, who has died after a third heart attack at the age of seventy-nine. Sir Peter who founded the Wildfowl Trust and the World Wildlife Fund was...
Fugitive Brian Newcombe arrested (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Maria Duarte reports on the arrest of the fugitive Brian Newcombe (alias David Kerr). He was detained at a guest house in Mansfield and is now being interviewed after an officer spotted a car which police...
Princess Anne and Mark Phillips split-reaction (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
George Matheson reports on the separation of Captain Mark Phillips from Princess Anne (Princess Royal). Includes interview with James Whitaker, royal reporter; Major Peter Phillips, father; Nigel Dempster,...
Leona Helmsley trial (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Paul Woodley reports from New York on a tax fraud trial involving one of America’s richest families. Leona Helmsley, was found guilty of not paying two and a half million pounds in tax. Her husband, Harry...
Princess Anne and Mark Phillips split (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Camilla Affleck reports on the separation of Captain Mark Phillips from Princess Anne (Princess Royal). Includes interviews (including archive recordings) with Mark Phillips; Princess Anne.
Thatcher praise for bird charity (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Mark Phillips reports on a visit by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the headquarters of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, Bedfordshire. During her tour the Prime Minister...