BFBS Shows

[ckitlee]

It's not just the time difference - it might be the difference in programme schedule in individual BFBS stations. For example the Peel show might go out in BFBS Berlin on a Tuesday, but it might go out on BFBS Hong Kong on a Saturday. And to complicate the thing even more, the programmes might not be played in the same sequence as they arrived at each BFBS station.

But one thing for sure, the date of the programme as printed on the tape - and the contents of it - matches with the date written on the "tracklist" which I wrote at the time of the broadcast of that programme. 

Bearing in mind all those uncertainties, we might have to use the tracklist as a reference to match different sources of BFBS tapes. That should be a minor inconvenience that should not spoil the joy of being able to assemble such a collection after all those years.

Meanwhile, I've finished uploading another programme. So better start a new thread for that.

Cheers,
CK
--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "So It Goes 2512" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
>
> Hi CK
> 
> Thanks very much for this! It's extremely welcome because, although Carsten sent me this show, his is incomplete.
> One thing though, and this may be to do with the time difference, but all the shows I have from this era went out on Thursdays, which would date this as the 22nd: the others tie in datewise. I hope you'll be able to fill in other gaps in the run for us!
> 
> Bets wishes
> Steve (TK)
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ckitlee" <iceage01@> wrote:
> >
> > I have recently started to clear up some of the tapes lying around my house so that I can start converting them to digital format for sharing. The first tapes are some BFBS shows between 1995 and 1997, shortly before the services closed down here after the handover of Hong Kong back to China on 1997. As the shows were taped onto VCR (mainly to take advantage of being able to tape the whole show in one go, as Peel's BFBS show was normally broadcast during the midnight hours), and my VCR is wearing out a bit (almost impossible to find any replacement now in Hong Kong), there is some sizzling noise on the background in most files, and occasionally the machine switched itself to mono qaulity. But otherwise the sound quality should be quite reasonable.
> > 
> > The big headache however is uploading. I notice that uploading to the major file sharing sites (e.g. rapidshare, mediafire) is rather slow. So may take a while to share all these files.
> > 
> > So here is the first one:
> > BFBS 19970523.mp3   http://www.mediafire.com/?bj3ab137u5zxbws
> > 
> > Cheers
> > CK
> > from Hong Kong
> >
>