Peel's Contract / BBC Written Archives

[ken garner]

don't know, sorry.

Have now read the full guardian piece, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/20/bbc-archives
and a few comments:
That opening is quoting from the letter I quote in TPS and IST, of course.
The later documents cited as from Peel's file (Yeah Yeah Noh, UB40), used to be in the sessions sheets files in Walters' office, like The Passions memo, Dale Griffin's memo on recording electronic acts, and so on... because that's where i recall finding them and quoting them. Couldn't quote them all. These went to Archives some years ago.
The final break-out box quote from 1968 about Peel's payment does not refer to his normal weekly contract for Top Gear or NightRide, but as I recall (without checking my notes) this one referred to Peel's more substantial contribution to The Voice of Pop (TX 21/9/68), which I seem to recall Tony Gould (a talks producer, later editor producer of From Our Own Correspondent) produced.
I suspect others of you will like me be struck by the potential import for us of this section of the article:
"The kernel of the BBC Archive is already online at bbc.co.uk/archive, where the first few collections are being presented to the public. Further development may take the form of crowdsourcing, Ageh says, perhaps granting access to parts of the archive to colleges or specialist groups, such as the Sherlock Holmes Society. Such organisations could help develop and validate the content"
could there be a role for us here? I suggest, however, we do nothing until the 400 Project is complete and we donate the lossless disk versions to the BBC, then intimate our interest and capabilities based on this staggering collective achievement - speaking of which, is the end in sight? Rocker, do you need aother cash infusion from the congregation to pay for disks and postage?

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Dean" <koogy@...> wrote:
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> >> http://bit.ly/peelcontract
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> is that crookham road in Parsons Green? it says SW16 but Crookham Road is 
> now SW6. perhaps the postcodes have changed. or a typo. anyway, it's about 2 
> miles from here, i might go and visit. 
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> andy
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