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Post by tburchell on Dec 30, 2009 21:09:32 GMT
I have an almost complete run of the Dave Barrett Phone-in from GWR Radio Bristol. These episodes are all off air copies on cassette. Are these vintage episodes from the 1980's of any value?
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Post by Stuart Monk on Jan 1, 2010 14:57:13 GMT
Of social value, undoubtedly - not familiar with Dave Barrett but I was never a fan of phone-ins anyway. Someone, somewhere will want to listen to a few of these, at least! Can't imagine Heart 96.3, the modern-day equivalent of GWR Bristol, being interested in the cassettes so it may fall on you to transfer the recordings to MP3 for posterity, or ask someone here to do it. I've got loads of tapes of my own to transfer this year, otherwise I'd offer. You weren't talking about monetary value, of course? That would depend on there being some obsessive Dave Barrett fans around! Hope this helps - don't be tempted to throw them away. Cheers, Stuart
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jan 1, 2010 22:09:58 GMT
maybe worth passing the recordings onto Bristol museum as they are part of the areas social history
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Post by jontravers on Jan 2, 2010 4:08:18 GMT
I would think (and hope) that the Dave Barrett archives are there somewhere. I remember that he was banned by the Government about UFO's, but it could be the mind playing tricks on me. Nearly 20 years will do that to you.
I remember listening to him on Wiltshire Sound back in the day.
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Post by Joe Haynes on Jan 2, 2010 21:28:53 GMT
I used to work for GWR and can say that they dont have any archive. I found a lot of tapes lurking in the back of cupboards and used as door stops. I came across the master soundboard DAT for a Feeder concert in a bag of cds!
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Post by tburchell on Jan 3, 2010 1:31:23 GMT
Thanks everyone for all your replies. I know that GWR (or Heart as they are now) are not at all interested in these recordings, and even Dave himself (who now works in Singapore) has no use for them. However they are a fascinating document of local commercial radio in the 1980's and unless someone else recorded these shows, they are probably the only ones in existence. One day I may get around to making MP3s or CD copies of them, in the meantime they remain on their original cassette tapes.
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Post by Joe Haynes on Jan 3, 2010 17:07:52 GMT
Please keep them. they are important documents and the only existing copies! ever throw out the original cassettes dont
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Post by John Wall on Jan 3, 2010 20:11:19 GMT
ORCA may be interested.
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Post by stevefreestone on Jan 17, 2010 22:14:30 GMT
I have an almost complete run of the Dave Barrett Phone-in from GWR Radio Bristol. These episodes are all off air copies on cassette. Are these vintage episodes from the 1980's of any value? Interesting as I have a lot of tapes from "Boothby Graffoe Live" which was a Friday night comedy/phone in show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire in the late 80s / early 90s that I'm currently putting onto MP3.
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Post by Matthew North on Mar 17, 2010 11:19:39 GMT
I have an almost complete run of the Dave Barrett Phone-in from GWR Radio Bristol. These episodes are all off air copies on cassette. Are these vintage episodes from the 1980's of any value? Interesting as I have a lot of tapes from "Boothby Graffoe Live" which was a Friday night comedy/phone in show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire in the late 80s / early 90s that I'm currently putting onto MP3. you should at the very least achive them to somehing better than MP3 ir uncompressed wav files and CD back up.
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Post by Richard Harrison on Apr 2, 2010 7:57:22 GMT
Yes- totally agree with Matthew. MP3 OK as listening copies but very unwise to archive onto MP3.
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Post by Ash Stewart on May 6, 2010 11:34:46 GMT
I would think (and hope) that the Dave Barrett archives are there somewhere. I remember that he was banned by the Government about UFO's, but it could be the mind playing tricks on me. Nearly 20 years will do that to you. I remember listening to him on Wiltshire Sound back in the day. I don't recall him being banned; but I do remember Tim Good was quite a regular guest to the programme. I also recall his show seemed to just stop all of a sudden when it ended. One day he was there, and the next he'd gone. I can't recall the reason why, though. But his show was, for a while, essential listening.
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Post by Mark Tinkler on May 13, 2010 8:27:38 GMT
Have you asked the British Library Sound Archive to see if they're interested?
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Post by tburchell on Jun 11, 2010 22:33:23 GMT
No, as yet I have not spoken with the national sound archive, which is a very good idea! I do know that GWR FM (as was) do not hold any copies of this show so as far as I know, mine are the only copies, even Dave himself doesn't have any.
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Post by Joe Haynes on Jun 17, 2010 16:49:31 GMT
Yep GWR dont have any archive. Everything gets binned after a year or so
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