Experimental Stereo Broadcasts

[Richard Moore]

Following on from my Experimental Colour question - do any of you knowedgeable guys know anything about the experimental Stereo broadcasts that the BBC did?

I know 1 show exists featuring the Stones (anybody know it's title so I can look it up?)

Is there anything else?

Thanks

Richard

[Dave Andrews]

There were certainly publicised (in Radio Times) experimental stereo broadcasts in the early '60s, on Saturday mornings, using BBCtv sound for the right (IIRC) channel, and the Third Programme for the left. They did a number of these experimental broadcasts (once a month ?), and once they broadcast part of 'Saturday Club' (but only about 15 mins AIR). They also did a production of a play about a trail for slander (concerning cheating at cards). I remember trying them out in the holidays (unfortunately I had school on Saturday mornings). Whether anything of those progs survives I don't know.

Apparently they also experimented with FM (analogue) mutiplexed stereo techniques (ie L+R in the ordinary AF spectrum, a pilot tone and L-R frequency shifted up above the pilot tone; essentially the technique used for FM stereo today) from at least one TX (Wrotham ?) roughly around the same time.

[Peter Chadwick]

richardm said:

Following on from my Experimental Colour question - do any of you knowedgeable guys know anything about the experimental Stereo broadcasts that the BBC did?

I know 1 show exists featuring the Stones (anybody know it's title so I can look it up?)

Is there anything else?

Thanks

Richard

Off the top of my head (I'm at work at the moment) the Stones broadcast was in a show called either 'Blues In Rhythm' or 'Blues And Rhythm' - Long John Baldry's exaggerated fake American drawl makes it rather difficult to tell.

[Peter Chadwick]

It's 'Rhythm And Blues' , 31.10.64.

[lfbarfe]

Isn't Georgie Fame on that session as well? Recorded at the Camden Theatre?

[Peter Chadwick]

He certainly is; never heard his tracks, though.