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Post by Luke Phelps on Sept 1, 2022 11:05:32 GMT
I used to adore this programme growing up. I see a fan has started a Youtube channel, with a handful of episodes, (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg-ENR_wTfe58MRXS_UrbKg/videos) but states on the "About" section: "The Cook Report Archive for all 130 editions was destroyed in a fire at The Iron Mountain data storage facility in London in 2006. Roger Cook himself kept very few tapes because he always said there was hardly a programme that he couldn’t have done better. So, what we have here is an assembly of Cook investigations which have come from members of the public, former members of the Cook Report team and YouTube."
Is this true, can anyone confirm? If so, what else was lost then?
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Post by markboulton on Sept 1, 2022 15:29:03 GMT
Archives and fires always sound iffy to me. Universal, Aardman, STV... And non-TV, Metronet's commercial files shortly after they went into administration...
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Post by Richard Marple on Sept 1, 2022 20:48:23 GMT
I wonder if any copies were kept as evidence for legal reasons?
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Post by garygraham on Sept 9, 2022 21:21:58 GMT
It would be good to know the truth about this as I have seven episodes, some of which aren't that channel.
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Post by Hugo Danby on Sept 10, 2022 7:36:56 GMT
All Cook Report programmes were relocated from Carlton's archive in Nottingham up to the new ITV archive in Leeds circa 2005. I'm confused as to why Iron Mountain would then be in possession of the programmes a year or so later. Central/Carlton were very protective over the Cook Report because of the sensitive nature of the subject matter even to the point that all programme rushes were kept for "legal" reasons. Would love to know where this person got the information from about the alleged fire.
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Post by petercheck on Sept 10, 2022 13:43:28 GMT
Did Roger Cook ever investigate how the fire started?
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Post by Hugo Danby on Sept 10, 2022 14:19:48 GMT
Did Roger Cook ever investigate how the fire started? A google search shows there was a fire in 2006 in their London facility which destroyed everything. It also suggests that the records held there were "archived, inactive business records". I doubt very much that Cook Report master videotapes were there. |
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Post by garygraham on Sept 17, 2022 14:47:06 GMT
The Cook Report being destroyed in the Iron Mountain fire was a claim made by a man who made various historical (and false) allegations against an MP a few years back. It led to a court case. Upon further investigation the dates of various events didn't match his claims. This could be where this rumour originates from.
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Post by markboulton on Sept 28, 2022 21:41:15 GMT
So the TV programmes are safe, but possibly something held in the paperwork files contained information that, if not obsolete, somebody wanted to "make obsolete"? Just guessing of course.
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Feb 12, 2023 17:33:31 GMT
I once worked in a vegetable processing plant that was closed down by Roger Cook for employing illegal immigrants.
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Feb 12, 2023 18:00:28 GMT
The Cook Report being destroyed in the Iron Mountain fire was a claim made by a man who made various historical (and false) allegations against an MP a few years back. It led to a court case. Upon further investigation the dates of various events didn't match his claims. This could be where this rumour originates from. It makes you wonder if someone wanted them disappeared. |
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Post by garygraham on Feb 14, 2023 9:29:36 GMT
The Cook Report being destroyed in the Iron Mountain fire was a claim made by a man who made various historical (and false) allegations against an MP a few years back. It led to a court case. Upon further investigation the dates of various events didn't match his claims. This could be where this rumour originates from. It makes you wonder if someone wanted them disappeared. It's a possibility. It's surprising more didn't happen. He investigated some very dangerous people. |
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