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Post by gregbakun on Aug 26, 2017 17:16:19 GMT
We are pleased as punch in this episode of our podcast as we are able to have a conversation with Sue Malden! Sue was named the first BBC Archive Selector back in 1978 and her work revolutionised the way programs have been selected and kept in archives for not only the BBC but the UK and beyond. Our conversation goes a lot into the archive selection process she put together plus we talk about the work she is doing in the field now. Of course we touch on her project she initiated to track down what might have happened to episodes of lost BBC series. She eventually chose Doctor Who but she talks about some of the other series she considered looking into first. It’s a not only a great conversation about archive television but it’s a great conversation about television archiving. We next move onto a quick conversation with BBC South Producer Richard Latto who recently returned an episode of Hugh and I called The Girl on the Poster from 1964. He talks about where the print has been and how this isn’t the first time the film collector who owns this print has helped out the BBC Archives. We talk with Oliver Crocker who wrote “All Memories Great & Small” from Miwk Publishing about the passing of Robert Hardy. He not only shares great memories of interviewing Robert Hardy for his book but also shares some personal audio of the two talking. Finally, we check in with Chris Perry who gives us all the information for the upcoming Kaleidoscope event on 2/9/17 at Birmingham City University. It’s going to be a fantastic event with great guests and rare material. We share all the information! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fromthearchives-podcast/id1182742747Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/05-From_the_Archive-Sue_Malden.mp3RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssTickets to the Kaleidoscope event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/k-2917-tickets-36551717170To buy “All Memories Great & Small”: www.miwkpublishing.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=122TV Brain: www.tvbrain.info
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Post by gregbakun on Oct 23, 2017 2:17:39 GMT
Back before television, radio was King or perhaps in Australia it was Queen! The first part of this episode is an interview with the Managing Director of Grace Gibson Productions Bruce Ferrier. Bruce now runs a production company that started in the 1940s by a woman who hailed from Texas and moved to Australia starting a legacy of commercially and critically successful radio productions. These productions stood the test of time and Bruce is going to talk to us about Grace Gibson herself and the tremendous output of the studio. It wouldn’t be a Kaleidoscope podcast if we couldn’t talk about the current state of the Grace Gibson archives, how master recordings are stored and if any restoration work is being carried out on them. We then talk with Researcher Richard Bignell as we talk about the 50th anniversary of Season 5 of “Doctor Who”. We focus on this season because there has always been something special about it. Richard gives his opinion why plus we talk about the return of missing material and the research he is doing for his next issue of “Nothing at the End of the Lane”. Then, we talk about the recent find of the soundtrack to an “Adam Adamant Lives!”. We interview Tim Emblem-English who found the recording about how this find was almost completely looked over. We also scoured through the Kaleidoscope archives to bring out a rare interview with Verity Lambert as she shares some of her thoughts on the production of “Adam Adamant Lives!”. Finally, we share some exciting news about what we are planning to do this episode of “Adam Adamant Lives!” to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Kaleidoscope and what we are planning on doing may affect other shows where soundtracks only exist. Don’t worry, any examples we provide in this episode we know need to be cleaned up! Lots to listen to in this episode! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fromthearchives-podcast/id1182742747Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/06-From_the_Archive-Grace_Gibson.mp3 RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssGrace Gibson Productions: gracegibsonradio.com/Tim Emblem-English (The Flying Spot): www.theflyingspot.co.ukTV Brain: www.tvbrain.info
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Post by gregbakun on Dec 12, 2017 22:57:34 GMT
It’s been an exciting year for the return of missing material and one of the great ways to see some of this material is to go to the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event on the 16th of December! We take time in this episode to preview some of the awesomeness that is going to be shown this year! We talk with two gentlemen who do not need introductions but we will do so anyway: Dick Fiddy TV Historian for the BFI who founded the Missing Believed Wiped event in 1993. We talk about the recent recoveries that will be shown at the event but also what else is going on at the BFI. At the time of publication of this podcast, the BFI is wrapping up its Sydney Newman season and we can a sneak peek at a couple of other events that have yet to be formally announced. We then talk to Ed Stradling. Ed is a freelance Producer who has done extensive work telling the story of DOCTOR WHO through some of its most famous periods through documentaries but in this episode, we talk about his passion for missing British television material. He has been looking through countless hours of domestic recordings. What is he looking for? What is he going to have for us to watch at Missing Believed Wiped! Finally, this podcast has been going for a year! Your host is celebrating this by traveling to the UK and will be at Missing Believed Wiped! If you are going to be there, let me know! I would love to say hi! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fromthearchives-podcast/id1182742747Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/07-From_the_Archive-MBW_Preview.mp3RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssTV Brain: www.tvbrain.info
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Post by gregbakun on Dec 12, 2017 23:18:56 GMT
Also, please note the ridiculous typo in the image. Ugh!
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Post by gregbakun on May 1, 2018 1:50:02 GMT
When we think of Lost TV Shows, it’s possible that the same 10 to 15 series may come to mind. Different series are important to different people. That is why this Kaleidoscope initiative led by Ray Langstone is so unique. He tallied from anyone who responded to his request to name their top lost TV shows. What did he do with this information and how did he acquire it? It’s fascinating and also interesting to see where some of our favourite series landed on the list! Just to make it even more interesting, we added some audio from missing programs to illustrate some of the choices made for the list. Next, we have an incredible conversation with Jake Berger of the BBC Archive Development Team. I interviewed him while I was in the UK at the BBC Broadcast Centre. There, we spoke in-depth about the wonderful BBC Genome Project and also some other things that have been going on in that group. This is very much worth a listen; there is some truly remarkable information in this interview. So much content, this is a long episode! Please enjoy! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/08-From_the_Archive-Top_100_Missing_Shows.mp3Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fromthearchives-podcast/id1182742747RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssTV Brain: www.tvbrain.infowww.tvbrain.info
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Post by gregbakun on Jun 23, 2018 16:56:36 GMT
NEW PODCAST EPISODE!! From the Archive Episode 9: Doctor Who Season 12 Blu-ray Set Edition Link at bottom of description! Doctor Who has an established history of DVD sets chocked full of amazing extras and interesting documentaries about the series’ past. Now, as classic Doctor Who enters the realm of Blu-ray sets by season, how do they top themselves? This episode of From the Archive: A British Television Podcast, takes a look at how the team lead by Russell Minton decided to evolve the range to not only make it more appealing to fans but unleash the floodgates of archive material never made available to the public before now. We talk with Russell Minton about his vision for these sets, Richard Bignell about the research and work that went into providing the loads of archive material to this set that has never been available to fans before now, Ed Stradling about updating old documentaries and making new ones for this set, and Derek Handley who not only talks about the work that goes into the photo galleries but also the BBC Photographic Library and his work tracking down photos we have not seen before for the sets. We also talk to Stephen Cranford who was a close friend to Graham Strong who recently passed away. Graham gave us the gift of crystal clear audio recordings to many missing Doctor Who episodes and we pay tribute to his legacy and find out more about who Graham was. It’s a very interesting episode that shows off the sheer amount of work that goes into some of our favourite extras on the classic Doctor Who DVD & Blu-ray range. If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/09-From_the_Archive-DW_Season_12_Blu-Ray_Special.mp3Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...t/id1182742747RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssTV Brain: www.tvbrain.info
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Post by Arthur Chim on Jul 16, 2018 11:07:56 GMT
Hi Greg, I've just discovered your podcasts and listened to episode 9, great interviews and well put together. I'm waiting for my copy of the season 12 blu ray set to arrive so you have whet my appetite. Listening to episode 5 now (Sue Malden). Your website has been added to my Favourites list. Keep up the fantastic work.
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Post by gregbakun on Nov 11, 2018 18:33:23 GMT
NEW PODCAST EPISODE!! From the Archive Episode 10: Tales of Television Centre & ITV Archives BBC Television Centre has a place in many of hearts that adore British television. When news came about its closure, it upset many that the BBC would leave such an iconic location. A wonderful documentary was produced before it closed. Directed by Richard Marson, Tales of Television Centre, brought together a wide spectrum of people who worked most of their careers there to bring us some of the warmest memories of our “concrete donut”. We talk with Richard about the making of this documentary and what it was like making it, creating the tone of the piece and an insight on what the BBC wanted to name it just prior to transmission! This is the first of a few conversations with will have with Richard and this is a fun one to listen to about Television Centre! We also talk to Andrew Gavaghan who is the Archive Manager to the ITV archives. Conducted on location at the ITV Archive in Leeds in December of 2017, Andrew gives is an insight into the workings of the archives. It’s a great conversation! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/10-From_the_Archive-Marson_ITV_Archive.mp3Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...t/id1182742747RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssTo get Richard’s book Upside Down go to TV Brain: www.tvbrain.info For more info on Kaleidoscope’s Parkside Christmas Party: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-parkside-christmas-party-tickets-51614782203?fbclid=IwAR3sMi26uhlIv74AXh_GuTkeQrboJMBOr8yVRM4fCCyzcHZjIYb5sPJBUdETo pick up Richard Marson's other wonderful books from Miwk Publishing: www.miwkpublishing.com/
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Post by gregbakun on Dec 2, 2018 17:02:36 GMT
NEW PODCAST EPISODE!! From the Archive Episode 11: Dad’s Army 50th Anniversary Permission to upload a new episode of the podcast Sir! Link at bottom of description! We could litter the description of this episode with loads of famous Dad’s Army catchphrases but this series is so much more than that. Now, 50 years after its first broadcast, it is still entertaining people around the world with a very healthy following. We wanted to celebrate this series! First off, we wanted to talk with someone from the cast of the show and immediately Frank Williams came to mind! Frank perfectly played the role of the Vicar from Series 3 onwards. He graciously gave us his time to talk with him and he didn’t disappoint! He talked extensively about his time on Dad’s Army, The Army Game, writing and acting in general! In keeping with the archive theme to this podcast, we had wonderful conversation with Martin Geraghty. Martin worked on the animated Dad’s Army episode “A Stripe for Frazer” as well as on the animated Doctor Who stories “The Power of the Daleks” and “Shada”. We talk about all of it. Finally, you may hear some Dad’s Army rarities. We just wanted to sprinkle some stuff in the episode that maybe most of you have not heard before that might make this episode just a little extra special! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/11-From_the_Archive-Dads_Army.mp3Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fromthearchives-podcast/id1182742747RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rssFor more info on Kaleidoscope’s Parkside Christmas Party: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-parkside-christmas-party-tickets-51614782203?fbclid=IwAR3sMi26uhlIv74AXh_GuTkeQrboJMBOr8yVRM4fCCyzcHZjIYb5sPJBUdE
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Post by gregbakun on Aug 4, 2019 13:42:39 GMT
NEW PODCAST EPISODE!! From the Archive Episode 12: Doctor Who: The Randolph Tapes and Off-Air Beatles Link at bottom of description! It’s a pretty special episode of the podcast to have both Doctor Who and The Beatles in the same episode and generally talking about the same subject: off-air audio recordings from television broadcasts! Back in December of 2018, Kaleidoscope announced that they were given a number of off-air audio recordings of Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s. These were given to us by Robert Wyn and have since been dubbed “The Randolph Tapes” as the name Randolph appears on the tapes themselves. Mark Ayres kindly stepped in and had a listen and was impressed by the quality. We wanted to share the background and analysis of these recordings by talking to Doctor Who Researcher Robert Franks about what he thought of them. Of course, we include clips so you can hear them yourself plus some rarities from the tapes you may never have heard before unless you were watching at the time of broadcast. We move onto that unknown Liverpudlian group known as The Beatles. Of course we jest but we have a great conversation with author and Beatles expert Keith Badman about off-air audio recordings of missing television appearances by the Fab Four plus so much more. The idea of missing music programs (apart from Top of the Pops) sometimes gets overlooked in favour of other series but Keith’s knowledge of the subject is very intriguing! Plus, we are happy to include some very rare clips of The Beatles from the Kaleidoscope archives. If that wasn’t enough, how about a brand-new missing off-air audio discovery of a television broadcast featuring The Rolling Stones? You want to know what it is? Well, you’ll have to listen and let Neil Ingoe tell you! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening. Direct Download: traffic.libsyn.com/fromthearchive/12-From_the_Archive-DW-Beatles.mp3Subscribe to us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fromthearchives-podcast/id1182742747RSS Feed: fromthearchive.libsyn.com/rss
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Post by David Huggins on Aug 4, 2019 20:57:50 GMT
gregbakun Fascinating episode. Great to hear some excerpts from the Randolph tapes. The brief audio clip from The Web Planet is remarkably clear - to my untrained ear the high frequency response seemed close to what I've heard on surviving quad VT material of this vintage. Was this part of the same batch of tapes announced last December? (Just wondered as I don't recall seeing The Web Planet listed on the Kaleidoscope press release at the time). Thanks for any info on this.
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Post by gregbakun on Aug 5, 2019 3:21:33 GMT
gregbakun Fascinating episode. Great to hear some excerpts from the Randolph tapes. The brief audio clip from The Web Planet is remarkably clear - to my untrained ear the high frequency response seemed close to what I've heard on surviving quad VT material of this vintage. Was this part of the same batch of tapes announced last December? (Just wondered as I don't recall seeing The Web Planet listed on the Kaleidoscope press release at the time). Thanks for any info on this. This was discovered in December I believe but I do not think it was announced. It is also not the entire episode recorded either.
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Post by David Huggins on Aug 5, 2019 19:40:00 GMT
gregbakun Fascinating episode. Great to hear some excerpts from the Randolph tapes. The brief audio clip from The Web Planet is remarkably clear - to my untrained ear the high frequency response seemed close to what I've heard on surviving quad VT material of this vintage. Was this part of the same batch of tapes announced last December? (Just wondered as I don't recall seeing The Web Planet listed on the Kaleidoscope press release at the time). Thanks for any info on this. This was discovered in December I believe but I do not think it was announced. It is also not the entire episode recorded either. Thanks very much for the info, Greg. I wonder if the Web Planet off-air audio was recorded at a slightly higher tape speed than the others. All the Randolph clips sounded really good, but the Web Planet one appears to have preserved more of the high frequency content. Great to hear.
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Post by markdixon on Aug 11, 2019 17:13:12 GMT
I enjoyed hearing extracts from the Randolph Tapes. I was very impressed by the sound quality of the recordings.
I’ve identified the mystery US comedy clip at the end of the podcast. It’s from the beginning of an episode of the Monkees called ‘Monkee See, Monkee Die’. This was broadcast on BBC-1 on 07 January 1967, straight after episode 4 of 'The Highlanders’.
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Post by Richard Marple on Aug 11, 2019 21:13:07 GMT
I think that would have been only the second episode of the Monkees shown in the UK, which debueted a week earlier on 31/12/1966.
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