Try yet again - again - > One of the reasons I am keen to 'listen again' to audio broadcasts from > the Beeb and elsewhere is that programmes are rarely repeated, especially > folk > programmes. Take the Mike Harding Folk Music & Song series. Once he got the > push he was never heard from again. His slot was taken by one Mike Radcliffe > (like 'who?'). Harding's previous programmes will never he heard - > ever again. [He now privately podcasts new ones.] > > > The Beeb's total lack of interest in archiving its own recordings is legion. > Not only did it wipe out thousands of comedy progs, and folk progs, etc., in > the > 1960s-90s, it had to rely on home-tapers to retrieve many of its 'lost' > programmes. Hence the infamous Treasure Hunt. [BTW the 9th ep. of the TV Lark > is > STILL missing.] > > > The role of get_iplayer and Radio Downloader etc. is simply that of a tool > for a > home-taper who in previous years might have recorded off-air using reel-reel > tapes or cassette tapes. The Beeb's complaint about RD breaking DRM etc. is > pure nonsense. > > > I personally have many 'lost' folk and comedy programmes. We know the > former were junked by the Beeb because the reel-reel masters were found in a > skip behind Radio Manchester Studios. They were 'rescued' but then > disappeared into a private collection. I have cassette versions from off-air > recordings - the only extant copies. Other programmes have been recovered > from > home-tapers in New Zealand. When approached to donate copies the Beeb > scathingly > replied "not interested." > > > So as far as I am concerned the Beeb is only reaping what it has sown. Many > in > the OTR fraternity have large archival collections of long 'lost' radio > programmes. One main reason for this - apart from the production qualities > being > far superior to modern ones - is that the radio stations including the Beeb > are > simply not interested in archiving minority genres, e.g. folk, and are > certainly > not interested in keeping programmes of such in the public domain where they > belong. > > > CJB. >
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