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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 15, 2012 17:12:25 GMT
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Post by John Green on Oct 15, 2012 17:59:17 GMT
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Post by Rich Cornock on Oct 15, 2012 19:02:22 GMT
Excellent.
Perhaps this will help to silence the people on here who keep saying its not worth returning anything to the archives as it doesn't see the light of day. In my opinion this is the future of the BBC archive, allowing people to download vintage material when they want to listen to it.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 16, 2012 8:19:41 GMT
To be cynical they're putting things like this online that probably wouldn't justify a commercial release.
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Post by John Green on Oct 16, 2012 9:56:05 GMT
Luckily,in the view of the BBC,that goes for 99% of their archive!
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Post by John Wall on Oct 17, 2012 20:19:44 GMT
Luckily,in the view of the BBC,that goes for 99% of their archive! Agreed  There must be a lot of interesting factual stuff that's just sitting there but wouldn't sell like Hancock, Goons, etc. Even News broadcasts have value to historians. |
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 17, 2012 21:00:02 GMT
I remember the BBC released a book a few years ago about notable news announcements, with a CD of important news reports enclosed.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Oct 23, 2012 12:01:53 GMT
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Post by John Green on Oct 23, 2012 14:06:24 GMT
It mentions that some of the older (missing,presumably) letters were re-recorded for commercial release,so if you've got some on CD (or commercial cassettes?) those aren't them!
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Oct 29, 2012 21:50:24 GMT
920 episodes (out of 2,869) are now available - it's appears to be near enough complete from June 1988 to February 2004. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/broadcasts/2004/02The earliest original recording appears to be a 5 minute fragment from 12 Jan 1947. The earliest complete episode you can listen to is 5 Nov 1953. The very first "Letter from America" (broadcast 24 March 1946) was re-recorded in March 1996 and that's available too: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yjvy8 |
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Post by Joe Haynes on Nov 18, 2012 18:24:47 GMT
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Post by John Green on Nov 18, 2012 19:37:22 GMT
Joe,
I think we need a new thread!
It sounds as though 800 is an underestimate.At one point they pick up one batch,and it's the whole of 1979.Previously the BBC only had 5 episodes from that year.
What a wonderful success for the appeal.
(But what's with the hum on the clip they air? They call it "superb" quality,so is it a technical thing due to re-recording?
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Post by Rich Cornock on Nov 19, 2012 9:24:19 GMT
This is a lovely story, im so glad that the missing radio recording appeal turned this up
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Post by Joe Haynes on Nov 19, 2012 11:21:41 GMT
I think the hum is just the camera recording the audio 'live' whilsts its being played on a tape player. im pretty sure BBC tech team can get it to a much better standard
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Nov 22, 2012 0:11:56 GMT
This is great news. I know I recorded a few letters in the early eighties and should still have them on cassette somewhere although I haven't found them yet. Hopefully Roy's recordings will fill in the many gaps that exist for the 70s, 80s and the few that are missing from the 1990s. I wonder how long before they get added to the online archive? |
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There must be a lot of interesting factual stuff that's just sitting there but wouldn't sell like Hancock, Goons, etc. Even News broadcasts have value to historians.
