BBC Worldwide - Recent discoveries from uncatalogued TS ?
Jul 31, 2018 6:52:01 GMT
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Post by Ed Brown on Jul 31, 2018 6:52:01 GMT
Would anyone care to comment on the surprising rumour currently circulating, that BBC Worldwide - having moved on from digitising their well-documented vinyl Transcriptions - have made an unannounced discovery of a large quantity of supposedly lost radio episodes, from a huge volume of un-catalogued transcription recordings that has been sitting in storage for decades?
As I hear it, Radio 4 Extra has been airing 25 minute versions, in broadcast quality, of the radio comedy 'Take It From Here' for the past 2 months. Listening to those currently available on iplayer, it's clear that they bear all the hallmarks of Transcription Services recordings: exceptional clarity, modest surface noise, yet exceptionally short (barely breaking 25 minutes in some cases). These are plainly not cleaned up off-air home recordings, nor (looking at my notes) are they editions that have aired before on BBC 7 or 4 Extra.
Also, a note on the BBC website now itemises an unusually large number of surviving recordings from the comedy series 'Beyond Our Ken', the first series of which just began airing last week. Yet we are apparently to expect far more series 1 episodes than last time (or the two times before that) - more in fact than the online log I consulted suggests survive.
And my contact at the 'Clitheroe Kid' website tells me that as recently as last summer, Keith Wickham was telling him that BBC archives do not hold any of the half-dozen editions from that show which have aired over the past six weeks. Again, listening to them on iplayer they show all the evidence of being Transcriptions. Moreover, having been shown the document Keith was kind enough to provide, all the episodes aired exactly match with the list of those episodes from which TS disc recordings were made in the Sixties. Also, looking back to 2016, I notice that the half dozen 'Clitheroe' episodes which were aired that year on 4 Extra were also all believed, until then, to be long since lost.
I would have thought this sudden flood of lost shows ought to have been heralded by some kind of announcement. But, peculiarly, there doesn't appear to have been one. And no one on this forum seems to be talking about it either!
Did I miss a big announcement back in 2016? Or has no one noticed that a load of missing episodes are currently airing? Seemingly at the rate of three(!) a week, to judge by what's on the radio this week ('Take It From Here', 'Beyond Our Ken', 'Clitheroe Kid').
Something is peculiar somewhere. So what am I overlooking??
Anyone care to comment?
As I hear it, Radio 4 Extra has been airing 25 minute versions, in broadcast quality, of the radio comedy 'Take It From Here' for the past 2 months. Listening to those currently available on iplayer, it's clear that they bear all the hallmarks of Transcription Services recordings: exceptional clarity, modest surface noise, yet exceptionally short (barely breaking 25 minutes in some cases). These are plainly not cleaned up off-air home recordings, nor (looking at my notes) are they editions that have aired before on BBC 7 or 4 Extra.
Also, a note on the BBC website now itemises an unusually large number of surviving recordings from the comedy series 'Beyond Our Ken', the first series of which just began airing last week. Yet we are apparently to expect far more series 1 episodes than last time (or the two times before that) - more in fact than the online log I consulted suggests survive.
And my contact at the 'Clitheroe Kid' website tells me that as recently as last summer, Keith Wickham was telling him that BBC archives do not hold any of the half-dozen editions from that show which have aired over the past six weeks. Again, listening to them on iplayer they show all the evidence of being Transcriptions. Moreover, having been shown the document Keith was kind enough to provide, all the episodes aired exactly match with the list of those episodes from which TS disc recordings were made in the Sixties. Also, looking back to 2016, I notice that the half dozen 'Clitheroe' episodes which were aired that year on 4 Extra were also all believed, until then, to be long since lost.
I would have thought this sudden flood of lost shows ought to have been heralded by some kind of announcement. But, peculiarly, there doesn't appear to have been one. And no one on this forum seems to be talking about it either!
Did I miss a big announcement back in 2016? Or has no one noticed that a load of missing episodes are currently airing? Seemingly at the rate of three(!) a week, to judge by what's on the radio this week ('Take It From Here', 'Beyond Our Ken', 'Clitheroe Kid').
Something is peculiar somewhere. So what am I overlooking??
Anyone care to comment?