[peel] The BBC Archives

[RobF]

This reminds me - the BBC seem to be developing their archive online
presence.
Maybe you could fire the question off to one of their "experts"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/index.shtml



On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Martin Wheatley <
martinw@...> wrote:

> There is an aspect of the ending of 6Music which is I think
> of importance to us on the Peel list
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> The BBC has a large archive of sessions dating back to the
> early 60s.   At the moment it is only 6Music music that makes
> serious use of this.  Some of their progs have archive session
> material as a major part of the content.
>
> Radio 2's forthcoming 'In Concert' show will apparently occasionally
> make use of old concert recordings  (although that may just mean
> alternating last year's Coldplay concert with this year's!) .  But I
> have heard of no plans to use the sessions.
>
> What happens now.   Will the archive  (which I would remind
> you contains all those old Peel sessions) be allowed to moulder away?
> Or maybe horror of horrors they are going to sell it off!
> Surely they are going to do something with it
>
> This is a major cultural resource for this country and what happens to it
> matters
>
>
> martinw
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