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Post by RachelT on Jan 30, 2015 14:55:47 GMT
BBC Radio 4's tweets are REALLY exciting! They have urged people to visit the desert island discs website on Saturday when it will be available again and 'all will be revealed', and in replying to people's questions have said that there is more to tell, more to listen to, and more info. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I reckon they could have more of the recording...
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Post by Dan S on Jan 30, 2015 15:14:08 GMT
Examining the audio file from youtube it looks like it might have been put together from 2 sources. The first 5 minutes is heavily processed and with quite a low frequency range then at 5:04 (you can hear the edit) it cuts to a better quality source. If you have an audio editor that offers a "spectral view" select that and you'll see what I mean. It might mean though that the first 5 minutes of the tape was very quiet and it's been boosted and dehissed to match the second bit... so you'd increase the volume but that would increase the hiss, then you'd have to dehiss the first part... and that little burst of hiss at 5:04 would be because when they applied the dehiss it wasn't lined up exactly right.
If I was going to be suspicious... the short burst of hiss at 11:09 sounds odd. I've heard all sorts of buzzes and clicks on radio but it's never sounded like that. Then there's the ending, when a tape runs out it rarely does it conveniently at the end of a sentence like that, but that could just mean some well-meaning idiot has "tidied it up" by removing an extra half-sentence.
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Post by John Green on Jan 30, 2015 15:19:49 GMT
BBC Radio 4's tweets are REALLY exciting! They have urged people to visit the desert island discs website on Saturday when it will be available again and 'all will be revealed', and in replying to people's questions have said that there is more to tell, more to listen to, and more info. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I reckon they could have more of the recording... Sounds fascinating...But what does it mean? Where were the pre-release rumours? Where are the many fathers claiming credit for this child? Tune in on Saturday for more of this saga! Added: I'm trying to see the tweets.All I've found if one about Germaine Greer's birthday,and another about how "After 500 years beavers are back in the UK". twitter.com/bbcradio4
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Post by RachelT on Jan 30, 2015 15:32:44 GMT
BBC Radio 4's tweets are REALLY exciting! They have urged people to visit the desert island discs website on Saturday when it will be available again and 'all will be revealed', and in replying to people's questions have said that there is more to tell, more to listen to, and more info. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I reckon they could have more of the recording... Sounds fascinating...But what does it mean? Where were the pre-release rumours? Where are the many fathers claiming credit for this child? Tune in on Saturday for more of this saga! Added: I'm trying to see the tweets.All I've found if one about Germaine Greer's birthday,and another about how "After 500 years beavers are back in the UK". twitter.com/bbcradio4If you click on 'tweets and replies' and scroll down, they have tweeted a few times in response to questions about why it was removed - look around 21hrs - 22hrs ago for the most cryptic! Perhaps I shouldn't get my hopes up too much. All this expecting the unexpected - I don't know what not to expect anymore!
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Post by Daniel Smith on Jan 30, 2015 19:46:39 GMT
Kasterborous are reporting there are rumours online it may be a fake/hoax which may explain why the BBC have removed it www.kasterborous.com/2015/01/william-hartnell-long-lost-desert-island-discs/"Interestingly, there are rumours online suggesting that the clip is in fact a very clever fake. Certainly the clip was available to hear on the BBC website earlier today, only to be surprisingly withdrawn a few hours later." I've heard of elaborate hoaxes, but that takes the biscuit! No chance. That interview was genuine 60s radio.
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Post by Vaughan Stanger on Jan 30, 2015 20:49:55 GMT
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Post by John Green on Jan 30, 2015 21:48:36 GMT
Kasterborous are reporting there are rumours online it may be a fake/hoax which may explain why the BBC have removed it www.kasterborous.com/2015/01/william-hartnell-long-lost-desert-island-discs/"Interestingly, there are rumours online suggesting that the clip is in fact a very clever fake. Certainly the clip was available to hear on the BBC website earlier today, only to be surprisingly withdrawn a few hours later." I've heard of elaborate hoaxes, but that takes the biscuit! No chance. That interview was genuine 60s radio. I still have my doubts about the so-called off-airs of 'Marco Polo'....(Only kidding).
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jan 30, 2015 21:50:15 GMT
This would seem to be a genuine discovery, I look forward to hearing the details behind its return
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Post by John Green on Jan 31, 2015 1:15:10 GMT
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Post by Mark Vanderlinde-Abernathy on Jan 31, 2015 1:30:39 GMT
Amazing finds, all four of them important amazing people in history. Splendid!
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Post by matthewkilburn on Jan 31, 2015 1:57:28 GMT
My pleasure! It's always good when finds like this turn up.
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Post by George D on Jan 31, 2015 2:10:04 GMT
The finds are great, but if the hartnell is incomplete, it should have said that.
Perhaps someone had it in their basement and now feels it has no value
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Post by andrewfrostick on Jan 31, 2015 8:42:10 GMT
The finds are great, but if the hartnell is incomplete, it should have said that. Perhaps someone had it in their basement and now feels it has no value I agree. It's listed as 35 minutes. Surviving extract of full programme would be better .... Unless of course they are hoping someone may come forward with a copy if the whole thing. Fascinating listening none the less. Gives hope that more things will still turn up.
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jan 31, 2015 9:24:12 GMT
I imagine that some other missing desert island discs might reside with the participants. It would have been a lot easier to get a copy of this than a television performance if they wanted to. I expect a lot of guests would be unaware that the BBC never kept a copy of their episode
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Post by Mark P on Jan 31, 2015 9:36:43 GMT
"Louis Armstrong's personal copy of his appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs is among the recordings to be added to the show's online archive...Other rescued recordings feature author Reverend W Awdry, Dame Diana Rigg and Doctor Who star William Hartnell...Only part of the Hartnell interview, recorded in 1965, has been recovered." m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31061037
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