Post by Stephen Byers on Oct 23, 2017 8:49:09 GMT
Haven't seen this mentioned here. The BBC World Service Archive is at least making some programmes available to listen to and download.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nCxH0NlsPtyW8WvJ0rwDJP/about-world-service-radio#Archive
What is the BBC World Service Digital Archive Project?
Before the World Service moved out of its old headquarters, Bush House, thousands of tapes were digitised. The BBC World Service Digital Archive Project aims to put around 24,000 of these digitised programmes onto the website.
Archive Contact Information
Many programmes restored as part of the World Service Digital archive project belong to series which are no longer broadcast, and as such any postal or email addresses, or any other contact details read out during the programme are no longer relevant and your query will not be dealt with. If you wish to contact the BBC, please email us. {worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk}
What audio has been made available from the archive?
Not all audio has been restored as part of the BBC World Service archive project. A few programmes have been found and restored from the 1970s and 1980s, a more significant number of programmes from the 1990s and 2000s have been made available.
What is not included in the archive?
Some programmes have not been included for technical reasons - for example the main reason that programmes have not been restored is that the magnetic audio tapes on which programmes were recorded were reused or lost. Other programmes have not been included for legal reasons, and some audio has not been made available for other privacy or editorial policy reasons.
Here's just one programme I found interesting ...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033jxtj
Thomas Telford - The Colossus of Roads
Heritage
Presenter Malcolm Billings takes trip along a "canal in the sky" and past the bridges, docks and roads that earned Thomas Telford the title of "father of civil engineering."
Release date: 15 October 1984
Available now
25 minutes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nCxH0NlsPtyW8WvJ0rwDJP/about-world-service-radio#Archive
What is the BBC World Service Digital Archive Project?
Before the World Service moved out of its old headquarters, Bush House, thousands of tapes were digitised. The BBC World Service Digital Archive Project aims to put around 24,000 of these digitised programmes onto the website.
Archive Contact Information
Many programmes restored as part of the World Service Digital archive project belong to series which are no longer broadcast, and as such any postal or email addresses, or any other contact details read out during the programme are no longer relevant and your query will not be dealt with. If you wish to contact the BBC, please email us. {worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk}
What audio has been made available from the archive?
Not all audio has been restored as part of the BBC World Service archive project. A few programmes have been found and restored from the 1970s and 1980s, a more significant number of programmes from the 1990s and 2000s have been made available.
What is not included in the archive?
Some programmes have not been included for technical reasons - for example the main reason that programmes have not been restored is that the magnetic audio tapes on which programmes were recorded were reused or lost. Other programmes have not been included for legal reasons, and some audio has not been made available for other privacy or editorial policy reasons.
Here's just one programme I found interesting ...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033jxtj
Thomas Telford - The Colossus of Roads
Heritage
Presenter Malcolm Billings takes trip along a "canal in the sky" and past the bridges, docks and roads that earned Thomas Telford the title of "father of civil engineering."
Release date: 15 October 1984
Available now
25 minutes
They then turned the test site off and they started appearing, unheralded, on the main BBC site. From what I've seen the organisation of the collections is a mess, and as usual, the search on the BBC's website is unusable from my experience.