2 OPTICAL AND RADIO CATALOGUES
2.1 The SDSS photometric sample
2.2 The FIRST and NVSS radio surveys

3 FIRST-SDSS MATCHING
3.1 Identifying multi-component FIRST sources
3.2 Visual matching of complex sources
3.3 Automated matching of groups of FIRST sources
3.4 Automated matching of single FIRST sources
3.5 Summary of the cross-matching process
3.6 Completeness and reliability of the matched catalogue

4 NVSS MATCHING
4.1 NVSS counterparts to FIRST sources
4.2 NVSS sources without a FIRST match
4.3 Comparison of FIRST and NVSS flux densities

5 SPECTROSCOPIC DATA
5.1 Spectra and redshifts from earlier surveys
5.2 New spectroscopic observations
5.3 Re-red shifting
5.4 Final Redshifts
5.5 Redshift reliability
5.6 Emission-line measurements

6 SURVEY COMPLETENESS
6.1 Targeting completeness
6.2 Redshift completeness

7 SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION
7.1 Qualitative (visual) spectral classification
7.2 Quantitative (automated) spectral classification
7.3 Comparison of the automated and visual spectral classifications
7.4 Final spectroscopic classifications

8 THE SPECTROSCOPIC DATA TABLE

9 LARGESS SAMPLE CHARACTERISTICS
9.1 Optical colour versus redshift
9.2 WISE mid-infrared colours
9.3 The WISE two-colour diagram

10 THE HOST GALAXIES OF HIGH- AND LOW-EXCITATION RADIO AGN
10.1 AGN unification and the host galaxies of HERG and AeB objects
10.3 A matched sample of HERG and LERG host galaxies

11 SUMMARY