radio luxembourg

[William Martin]

does anyone know the status of radio 208 recordings ?

[Fred]

Wouldn't RTL have the Radio Luxumbourg archive?

[William Martin]

Guest-Fred said:

Wouldn't RTL have the Radio Luxumbourg archive?

I'll have to check that then, some of the DJs recorded their shows at the radio luxembourg offices in London so there may be some of these master recordings still about

[lancastrian]

I believe that the English [London] HQ of Radio Luxembourg destroyed all their archives several years ago.

[Shaun B]

>does anyone know the status of radio 208 >recordings ?

There's a lot of studio quality stuff about, and documentaries on 208 seem to have a wealth of material to chose from. I'd imagine that because so many programs on Luxembourg were sponsored, the companies who paid for the air time had copies too?

On a tangential note, anyone have an idea if editions of Joe Meek's Luxy show, "It's a Triumph" survive? I've heard one episode, and it's rather neat hearing Meek's reverbed-DJ links between records!

Cheers,
Shaun

[William Martin]

after radio 1 started luxembourg and caroline were realy the only alternatives, although listening to the recordingd now its quite surprising how seriously they all took themselves, peel with his perfumed garden, tony prince with his groovy talk etc

[Larry Dutch]

Would transcription discs have been made for abroad (like with the BBC sending their transciption discs out to the commonwealth countries) or was there nowhere else for Radio Luxembourg to send their broadcasts?
Did they only broadcast from one location?
LD

[stearn]

As I understand it (as I looked a little into this a while back) the recorded programmes (drama, comedy etc.) were either on acetates for broadcast and were the property of the sponsors, or were bought in from various production companies, Towers of London rings a bell. There are a few of these about, but nothing of the RL archive per se. I woudl love to be wrong!

[William Martin]

some of the luxy london office tapes may survive in private hands

[William Martin]

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[andy charity]

now when I read about radio luxembourg, i think of the 1937 fu manchu series that was mentioned on one of jeffrey archer's radio adventurer episodes.

of course there are 2 minute excerpts from 1930's bbc radio dramas in the national archive of recorded sound. it would be great to know which they are- i listened to an excerpt from a 1939 father brown episode, the man in the passage, at that archive 10 years ago.

[rodneycollins]

A friend called Paul Bedford told me of this site. I ran the editorial side of Radio Luxembourg from 1974-1988 and yes we did keep a fair number of programmes in the library - some are still locked away safely. We made THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN available to the BBC for their archives for instance. 14 good years in management there, it was a good radio station. Rodney Collins

[Gary C]

welcome, Rodney! How many programmes are still being stored? and where?? (you don't have to answer that last part!)

[Paul Bedford]

Hi Rod, I tried to join but it says my name is Invalid, so they no better than me eh? ;D

[Dan]

Nick Abbot on one of his radio shows told a story about when he worked at Luxy in the mid 80's. One day they had all the discs from their archives stacked up in the hallways in piles around 6 feet high. That meant that the bottom 3 feet were crushed. Next day they were all being dumped into a skip. He said he rescued a few and took them home (I contacted him about what discs he had, and he said they were just music 78's, not programme transcriptions.)
I don't know if all the discs were music discs or if some of them were transcription discs.


There's plenty of recordings old Luxy shows in private hands. From my own experience I've found that there seems to be a lot of 1930's recordings, but I've not found anything from the 40's, and only one tiny clip from the 50's, then of course theres quite a few 60's/70's/80's recordings.