Preserving the Sound Archive
Hear from the people behind the scenes at the BBC Archive
Preserving the Sound Archive
Preserving the Sound Archive
An interview with Julia Weaver, BBC Sound Archivist
Julia Weaver, who preserves sound recordings for the BBC, tells us about everything from wax cylinders to digital files.
- Click on a heading below to jump to that section of the film
- What's in the BBC Sound Archive?
- The Sound Preservation Team
- What are the earliest sound recordings?
- Discs
- Tape
- How did the Sound Archive begin?
- Preserving the Sound Archive for the Future
- Sound Restoration
- An Expanding Archive
Transcript
What's in the BBC Sound Archive?
We have a vast sound archive here at the BBC and when you consider that we've been collecting items since the early 1900s, which actually predates the television archive, it contains so many little nuggets, ranging from music such as the Rolling Stones and the Beatles through to Oasis, dramas such as 'The Archers', historical events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, and things like Richard Burton's recording of 'Under Milk Wood'. So it's a really exciting place to work.
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