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Audio cassette: 'BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) UK Falklands'. A post-Falklands interview with Menaul relating to the possibility of the Argentinians attempting to continue the war, the strategic importance of the Falklands, Ascension Island and South Georgia. Also the importance of electronic warfare, close-in defences for war ships and the problem of unexploded munitions in the Falklands. (15 mins)

Audio cassette: 'Forces broadcast BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) UK (2)', interview with Menaul relating to American air-land battle doctrine including nuclear weapons in Europe. (12 mins)

Audio cassette recording of Lyndon Baines Johnson remarks in a toast in the State Dining Room, White House, 22 Jun 1967 (6 minutes); and Lyndon Baines Johnson remarks after first meeting with Soviet Premier Alexey Kosygin, Glassboro, New Jersey, 23 Jun 1967 (2 minutes).Reference: WHCA # 594, LBJ Library, Austin Texas

Audio recording of a BBC television documentary, ‘The race for the double helix’, broadcast 1974 in the ‘Horizon’ science documentary series, possibly recorded by Wilkins from the television transmission.  Includes interviews with Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson

Duration: approx 55 mins

Sound quality: some comments on the broadcast by Wilkins are difficult to hear

Audio cassette 'An army is born' by African army choir-appears to be from South West Africa, now Namibia.

Recorded interview with Dame Cicely Saunders, in St Christopher's Hospice, conducted for the Second World War Experience Centre, Leeds, on subjects including: Saunders' nursing training, St Thomas' Hospital, 1940-1944; her family background; education; Oxford University; Christian beliefs; work as an almoner; David Tasma. Duration: 30 mins.

Recorded interview with Dame Cicely Saunders conducted in her office at St Christopher's Hospice by American psychologist John Liebeskind, of the University of California, Los Angeles, for an oral history project on the history of pain. Subjects include: Saunders' family background and education; her early work with the terminally ill; the establishment and expansion of St Christopher's Hospice; palliative care as a medical discipline in the UK and worldwide; current issues in end of life care.

One 7 ½ IPS 2 Track reel to reel tape of Radio 9, CJVI, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, interview with Mayhew as Minister of Defence (RN), Jan 1965.

Audio recording of a discussion, led by Stephen Rose and Hilary Rose, British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS), on the role of science in society

Duration: 60 mins

Audio recording of the discussion following a talk by Wilkins on social responsibility in science, given at Glasgow University to the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS).  

Duration: 38 mins

Sound quality: slightly distorted and speeded up at start of recording, otherwise good

One audio cassette recording Ambassador Pickering, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1989-1992, being interviewed by Brian Lapping. For content see transcript 4/9

One audio cassette recording of Richard B (Dick) Cheney, US Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993, being interviewed by Richard Perle, 4 Dec 1991. For content see transcript 4/1 Previous Ref: Roll 1-3

One audio cassette recording of Gen Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor, 1989-1993, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, 10 Dec 1991. For content see transcript 4/4 Previous Ref: Roll 26-28

One audio cassette recording Gen Colin Powell, Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-1993 being interviewed by Brian Lapping, 15 Dec 1991, Part 2, and Thomas Stephen Foley, Democrat member of US Congress, 1965-1995, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, [1991]. Note: audio recording incomplete. For content see transcript 4/7 and 4/8 Previous Ref: Roll 37-38, and Roll 39

One audio cassette recording Gen Colin Powell, Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-1993, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, 15 Dec 1991, Part 1. For content see transcript 4/7 Previous Ref: Roll 35-36

One audio cassette recording of James Addison Baker III, US Secretary of State, 1989-1992, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, 9 Dec 1991. For content see transcript 4/3 Previous Ref: Roll 24, 25

One audio cassette recording of Robert M Gates, Assistant to US President and Deputy National Security Advisor, 1989-1991, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, 9 Dec 1991. For content see transcript 4/2 Previous Ref: Roll 22, 23

One audio cassette recording of Stephen Joshua Solarz, Democrat member of US Congress, 1975-1993, being interviewed by Brian Lapping 14 Dec 1991. For content see transcript 4/6 Previous Ref: Roll 33, 34

One audio cassette recording of James Danforth Quayle, US Vice President, 1989-1993, being interviewed by Brian Lapping, 10 Dec 1991. For content see transcript 4/5 Previous Ref: Roll 30-32

Audio recording of lecture by Wilkins giving an introduction to the philosophy of science, given at King’s College London (and subsequently given as part 1 of a series of Eddington Memorial Lectures, Cambridge University, Apr-May 1978), with reference to Neolithic prehistory and ancient Egyptian science

Duration 23 mins