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The BBC Sound Archive is a collection of audio recordings maintained by the BBC and founded in 1936. Its recordings date back to the late 19th century and include many rare items, including contemporary speeches by public and political figures, folk music , British dialects and sound effects.
BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (Sham 69 album) BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (Steve Earle album) BBC Radio One Live in Concert (Dexys Midnight Runners album) BBC Radio One Live in Concert (New Model Army album) BBC Radio One Live in Concert (Thin Lizzy album) BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (Atomic Rooster album) BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (Caravan album)
The BBC Sound Archive contains the archived output from the BBC's radio output. Widespread recordings exist in the archive from the mid-1930s, when recording of programmes and speeches were kept for rebroadcast; the catalyst for this was the launch of the BBC Empire Service in 1932 and the subsequent rebroadcast of speeches from political ...
BBC Archives, a 2002 Iron Maiden album; BBC in Session, The La's album; BBC Live, a 2005 Violent Femmes album; Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996–2003, a Mogwai album; Radio One, a 1988 Jimi Hendrix Experience album; BBC Radio Sessions, an album by The Bluetones; Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970, a Yes (band) album
British Library Sounds (previously named Archival Sound Recordings) is a British Library service providing free online access to a diverse range of spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. Anyone with web access can use the service to search, browse and listen to 50,000 digitised recordings.
Playback, the bulletin of the British Library Sound Archive, was published free of charge from 1992 to 2010. All 44 issues are available online. A range of British Library CDs are available covering nature sounds, world music, historical speeches and recordings of famous poets, playwrights and authors.
Launched in January 2015, 'Save our Sounds' is the British Library’s initiative to preserve and make available rare and unique sound recordings, create a radio archive and create a technical infrastructure that will allow born digital music to be preserved.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s BBC Records released a wide range of recordings, primarily but not exclusively as tie-ins to the BBC's television and radio output. Some of these recordings entered the UK record charts (see below). Other ventures included a long-running series of sound effects recordings as well as original material from the BBC ...