Returning missing radio to the BBC

[Rich Cornock]

I'm sure Chris Perry won't mind me cutting and pasting this from the Kal Facebook page.

It gives details of a returned sound track and at the bottom how to return lost radio and TV sound tracks to the BBC. I'm sure some people on here may have some interesting recordings that the BBC might like

"The latest audio find from Kevin Smith is the audio only of seven lost episodes of "At The Eleventh Hour" a BBC satirical TV show from 1968.

The show combined a review of the week's news with comedy, music & poetry
The Cast Included Jeannie Lambe, Miriam Margolyes and Richard Neville and The Scaffold. Jeannie Lamb would perform a song each week especially written by Ray Davis of the Kinks. Roger McGough contributed a topical poem as well as sketches by the Scaffold.

The episodes recovered are:
30 .12.1967
06.01.1968
13.01.1968
20.01.1968
27.01.1968
03.02.1968
10.02.1968

Kev is really motoring along now finding recordings, I'm sure there are plenty more to come!

The BBC Archives and British Sound Library are taking copies of all the radio/TV soundtracks being found by Charles Norton, Kevin and the wider Kaleidoscope team. Nothing is being refused. In the past there has been reticence but not any more. The right people in the BBC Archives are making sure that the radio/soundtrack campaign is being given a good home.

If you have a sound recording, it's worth talking to Charles Norton and his team, email me at : [e-mail] if you want to."

[oj-wake]

Does this even apply to shows from defunct local BBC radio stations? I was given the impression that some of these are archived locally, rather than centrally by the BBC, and that those archives weren't interested in acquisitions. I had a very dispiriting experience with a recording of a (probably) long lost interview with ex-head of TV drama Michael Barry, which I thought might have been wanted for the archive.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

There are some 700 (SEVEN HUNDRED.... that was in the style of the Grandstand vidiprinter, couldn't resist....) recordings of farming shows from the BBC in the Museum of English Rural Life.

[Rich Cornock]

Maybe you could drop a line to the BBC about it Ray?

If you have a sound recording, it's worth talking to Charles Norton and his team or email Chris Perry at : [e-mail]

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

I may do. I think they gave the stuff away in the first place. I shall leave it till after Easter.

[Charles Norton]

By all means get in touch. The British Library have been very good in giving a permanent home to the material we've been sending them and there's been a lot of it too. I don't know if they've finished accessioning it yet, but in time it will all be publicly accessible to researchers on site in the British Library's St. Pancras listening rooms and you'll be able to search through the information on their catalogue online. The mountains of tape that we're yet to digitise will hopefully join the already digitised titles later this year - assuming I finally manage to get to the bottom of the current backlog.

[briancook]

thanks for this, I too will email after easter.

[oj-wake]

Apr 17, 2014 23:01:34 GMT Charles Norton said:

By all means get in touch. The British Library have been very good in giving a permanent home to the material we've been sending them and there's been a lot of it too. I don't know if they've finished accessioning it yet, but in time it will all be publicly accessible to researchers on site in the British Library's St. Pancras listening rooms and you'll be able to search through the information on their catalogue online. The mountains of tape that we're yet to digitise will hopefully join the already digitised titles later this year - assuming I finally manage to get to the bottom of the current backlog.

I shall give the local archive, where apparently this material belongs, one final chance to respond and if they don't I'll move on to the good chaps at Kaleidoscope. Given the significant TV history connection, I'm sure it'll interest them.