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Post by Dan S on Jan 31, 2009 16:55:30 GMT
A new question...
For years I've been aware that a short clip of "The New Year Resolutions" exists, but can anyone tell me just how long the extract is, and which part of the show it is?
I'm wondering if it's the beginning of the show (and the persons tape ran out), or they knew they only had a few minutes of tape left and deliberately recorded a middle portion of the show, or the end bit, or maybe some other reason entirely.
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Apr 5, 2006 15:35:42 GMT
Post by Dan S on Apr 5, 2006 15:35:42 GMT
The "What in the name of Allah are you talking about?" has kindof been misreported and always makes people think the person writing the letter must have been a bit strange.
Apparently when writing a letter, it always starts with the phrase "In the name of Allah..." (or more likely the full phrase "In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful"), some notepaper for letter writing even having the phrase pre-printed, so in fact all they would have been saying is "What are you talking about?" and it's got messed up in translation.
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Post by Dan S on Nov 22, 2007 3:25:31 GMT
The reconstruction on the cd is labelled as "Broadcasting House bomb (reconstruction) Bruce Belfrage 15 October 1940". I think I've heard another one in a documentary (announced as a reconstruction).
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Post by Dan S on Nov 16, 2007 1:09:20 GMT
I've heard one or two reconstructions of an event such as this. One is on a cd called "75 years of the BBC". There is a genuine one though. This is an occasion where a bomb disrupts the broadcast, unfortunately I've never heard it. catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/SX+28169_3
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ITMA
Nov 16, 2007 18:44:32 GMT
Post by Dan S on Nov 16, 2007 18:44:32 GMT
No idea. I think there's stuff that's in the national sound archive that's not listed on infax.
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ITMA
Nov 16, 2007 0:55:21 GMT
Post by Dan S on Nov 16, 2007 0:55:21 GMT
At least 44 episodes exist (possibly a couple more) plus a few extracts.
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Post by Dan S on Nov 5, 2007 20:28:04 GMT
Do you have a list of what artists are in session in the Top Gear recordings? Did Nightride have bands in session or was it just records? I'm not familiar with that show.
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Post by Dan S on Jul 26, 2007 12:16:44 GMT
I didn't know about the Nick Drake session, what songs were found The last 57 seconds of "Time Of No Reply" with a short bit of Peel talking at the end, and "Three Hours" lasting 3 minutes exactly which seems to be incomplete at the start and the end. Apparently the first and 3rd songs of the session.
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Post by Dan S on May 4, 2007 16:31:10 GMT
Hmm...
He says "Quick commercial- I'm a collector of UK radio programmes. I am also into preservation and restoration."
And he also says... "I just do not have the time to slog through them."
He says he's into preservation and also says he can't be bothered to listen to some old 1960's reels. I smell something.
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Post by Dan S on Mar 18, 2007 14:17:21 GMT
ITMA
Out of a total of 307 shows made, approx 47 shows survive (maybe one or two more?), not sure of the exact figure, and several incomplete extracts.
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Post by Dan S on May 16, 2006 4:00:13 GMT
series 1 (1951) no episodes exist series 2 (1952) only 2 episodes exist series 3 (1952/53) only half an episode exists (as a low quality mp3) series 4 (1953/54) just under a third of the episodes exist series 5 onwards - everything exists except "The Missing Christmas Parcel"
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Post by Dan S on Jun 23, 2006 21:42:41 GMT
I can tell you nothing about the Beatles tape save for what I have already said. Have you tried listening to it?
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Post by Dan S on May 14, 2006 21:43:24 GMT
It'd probably be easier if you listed the names of shows listed on the reels and people here could say whether anything is highly sought after. You could also look up things on open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax
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Post by Dan S on Mar 22, 2006 17:49:23 GMT
Even as late as the mid-60's the BBC were still doing stereo tests by broadcasting the left channel on the radio (3rd Programme) and the right channel on the TV. You had to tune both in and position yourself in the middle. I believe in the BBC archive they have a recording of the Rolling Stones done this way, although they only have one channel's audio. Incidentally the first stereo broadcast in Europe was made by Danish pirate station Radio Mercur round about 1960/61 using 2 different frequencies, for which you needed 2 radios to listen. EDIT: Ah! Are they mono recordings? The idea only just occurred to me, and I hadn't considered the obvious possibility that the bbc broadcast in mono on fm before using it for stereo. I shall have to look into it.
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Post by Dan S on Mar 24, 2006 23:05:45 GMT
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