Videos posted by Samantha Richards
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Friendship
How a best friend is the difference between coping and not coping with life's more challenging, random and unexpected moments.
Hibernating a tortoise
Sam Richards remembers the annual ritual of hibernating her pet tortoise. Growing up in the 1970's, these were very popular creatures to keep as pets - now it's illegal to import these animals to the UK, possibly because our climate is quite unsuited to their needs.
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BOMB EXPLODES ON HMS ANTELOPE Part 2 Falklands War
On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded.... In his e
London being bombed during WW2
Bill Avis talks about bombs falling on London during the Second World War, collecting shrapnel, and picking up something and taking it home that was more dangerous than he thought!
JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR Prison guards
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he describes life in the camp - and ho
LIFE IN LONDON DURING THE BLITZ
Now 91 years old, Fay lived in Woolwich Arsenal during part of the war, and tells how she went shopping during air-raids, but came to fear the arrival of the "doodle-bugs".
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FLOODED FLEETWOOD
About a flood that happened in Fleetwood.
Friendship
How a best friend is the difference between coping and not coping with life's more challenging, random and unexpected moments.
London during WW2
My Granny describes what life was like during the war in London. Social life still went on for many.
ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 1
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he describes the moment the atomic bom
I met the man who shot down my Father in WW2
My Dad was shot down near Brussels in WW2. I met the German fighter pilot who did it.
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- BOMB DISPOSAL
- BRITISH ARMY
- CBS
- Falklands
- INDIA
- IRAQ WAR
- Japanese
- PAUL RUSSELL
- RAF
- SCHOOLDAYS
- Ulster
- alex wheatle
- alf ramsey
- argentina
- battle of britain
- bill avis
- bombing
- bombs
- brixton riots
- david wood
- derek cattani
- dorothy della pena
- evacuation
- falklands war
- first world war
- football association
- hms coventry
- hornchurch
- jamaica
- joe crawshaw
- john mitchell
- john phillips
- kingston
- london
- prisoner
- ralph volcere
- second world war
- seychelles
- spitfire
- suez canal
- suez crisis
- william walker
- world cup
- world war one
- world war two
- ww2
- 1956
- 1966
- 1981