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Archive Pioneers | Saviours of sound at the BBC
About this collection
The BBC was nearly ten years old when it installed its first recording machine, but tapes and discs soon began to pile up in Broadcasting House.
Through broadcasts, internal BBC interviews and recordings never before released in full, some of the BBC's archive pioneers explain how - and why - they set about collecting, selecting and organising voices and sounds in the 1930s and 40s. The department was variously named over the years, as its role in preserving the BBC's output grew and evolved, but today it is best known as the BBC Sound Archive.
Features
- Marie Slocombe: BBC Sound Archives
Marie Slocombe
Sound Archives Librarian 1937-1972
- You Have Been Listening to a Recording
You Have Been Listening to a Recording
Part 3
Lynton Fletcher and Marie Slocombe on the BBC's historic recordings
- Arthur Phillips: BBC Memories 1929-1974
- The Making of the BBC Sound Archives
The Making of the BBC Sound Archives
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Archive Pioneers Collection
- Programmes (6)
- Galleries (1)
Foyles Literary Luncheon
The BBC Recorded Programmes Department
Lynton Fletcher shows off the BBC Sound Library to a literary audience.
You Have Been Listening to a Recording
Part 3
Lynton Fletcher and Marie Slocombe on the BBC's growing collection of historic recordings.
Marie Slocombe
Sound Archives Librarian 1937-1972
In conversation with the first BBC Sound Archive librarian.
Arthur Phillips
BBC Memories 1929-1974
From page boy to chief producer over 45 years at the BBC.
Archive Hour
Marie Slocombe and the BBC Sound Archive
The story of the temp who started the BBC Sound Archive.
Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature
How a boyhood hobby led to pioneering recordings of the natural world.
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