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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.
The British Institute of Recorded Sound became part of the British Library, which had been split off from the British Museum, in April 1983. [3] It was later renamed the British Library Sound Archive. The metal masters originally collected by the British Museum were transferred to the Archive in 1992. [6]
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.
A sound archive(s) is a specialized archive that is often maintained by a nation, state, university, non-profit organization, or corporation. This article contains a list of sound archives . Contents:
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 ...
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Marie Tapscott Slocombe MBE (1912–1995) founded the BBC Sound Archive in 1936. Her keen interest in audio recordings and folk music have made her legacy important in the history of recorded sound .
BBC Radio Drama has a long history. [2] The earliest radio drama surviving in the BBC Sound Archives is "The Purple Pileus" [3] by H.G. Wells, with Philip Wade, Ann Trevor, Harold Scott, Myrtle Richardson, Douglas Burbridge, Peter Ridgeway, Edward Craven, Lilian Warde. It was broadcast 6/8/1935; it is 37:04 in duration and the BBC identifier is ...