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Beethoven’s Tenth - Recreated symphony is aired (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Music
Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony has received its first airing - played by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Beethoven died before its completion but Aberdeen University lecturer Barry Cooper has recreated...
Heysel Stadium disaster trial - 24 Liverpool fans (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
John Fraser reports from Brussels on the trial of 24 Liverpool fans accused of manslaughter over their role in the Heysel Stadium disaster in which 39 people were killed. Liverpool solicitor Sir Harry...
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...
Steve Jones show (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Steve Jones is joined by Max Bygraves, who discusses his benefit show to raise money for trees blown down in the hurricane last year, with other comedians and entertainers including Frankie Vaughan, Fenella...
Clive Jenkins on his retirement (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
One of Britain’s leading trade union figures is retiring to settle for a more peaceful life in Tasmania where he will work on ecology and write his autobiography. Clive Jenkins, joint General Secretary...
Charlie Kray on Me and My Brothers (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Charlie Kray, brother of the infamous Ronnie and Reggie Kray, discusses his sentence for his part in the murder of Jack McVitie, which he says didn’t commit. Kray is releasing a book, Me and My Brothers,...
Midwife wins job back in tribunal (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Midwife Chris Warren has won her test tribunal against Croydon health authority for dimissal 4 months ago for failing to call an assistant to a home birth. Chris says she’s delighted to be able to return...
Sir James Black is joint winner of Nobel Prize for medicine (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
James Black, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at Kings College Medical School, London reacts to news he has jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine with US colleagues George Hitchings and Gertrude...
Inquest of robbers killed by police (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Margaret Shiels reports from Lambeth Magistrates Court on the inquests into deaths of Michael Flynn and Nicholas Payne killed by police at an attempted robbery at Plumstead Abbattoir last July. Martin Payne,...
British Aerospace asset-stripping (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Michael Meacher, Labour Party employment spokesman, who is launching a campaign against the closure of weapons factories by British Aerospace with massive loss of jobs. He says the company...