Access info: 

• Connect to the London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive
  
  
• To search and listen to the audio clips, after connecting to the database please click on the Log in link on the left side of the page
• Athens login required via the UK Federation - about Athens authentication / UK Federation

Scope: 

The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive consists of approximately 80,000 individual audio files of recordings relating to news and current affairs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. These clips have been digitised from the 7000 hours of reel-to-reel tapes in the full archive collection as part of a JISC funded programme. Recordings are from a wide range of broadcasts, including coverage of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, Northern Ireland, the whole of the Thatcher period of government and recordings of the first hour of UK commercial radio including the first commercial radio news bulletin.

Members of the University are allowed to listen to the audio clips online and download them to use in teaching and learning, including adding them to electronic course packs in Blackboard. Read the full terms of use for more information.