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BBC Archive logo. The BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, BBC products (including toys, games, merchandise, books, publications, and programme releases on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, DVD, vinyl, audio cassette, audio ...
The archive includes material dating back to the 19th century, including about 200 wax cylinders, one of which is an 1890 recording of Florence Nightingale. [5] The collection has continued to grow over the years, and from 1998 was regularly drawn on for the BBC Radio 4 series The Archive Hour. [6]
The BBC today runs national domestic radio stations, six of which are available in analogue formats (via FM or AM), while other have a purely digital format – they can be received via DAB Digital Radio, UK digital television (satellite, cable and Freeview) plus live streams and listen again on BBC Sounds. The current stations are:
BBC Genome Project is a digitised online searchable database of back issues of the Radio Times from 1923 to 2009. [13] The information in the database will be linked up with the video and audio files that the BBC have archived, and from this the BBC will be able to work out what is still missing from the archive. [14] [15]
1999 in British radio – Launch of the Digital One multiplex; Britain's first £1m prize is given away on a segment of Chris Evans's Virgin breakfast show; Steve Wright in the Afternoon returns on BBC Radio 2 six years after programme's final broadcast on BBC Radio 1; Birmingham station BRMB stages the controversial Two Strangers and a Wedding ...
Theatre Archive Project Oral History strand. British Library Sounds free online access to over 90,000 sound tracks. Peter Copeland Conservation Manager of the National Sound Archive/British Library Sound Archive from 1986 to 2002. National Life Stories, an independent charitable trust within the Oral History section of the British Library.
BBC Records was a division of the BBC founded in 1967 to commercially exploit the corporation's output for radio and television for both educational and domestic use. The division was known as BBC Radio Enterprises (1967–1970), BBC Records (1970–1972) and BBC Records & Tapes (1972–1989).
They include a free-to-air news channel, widescreen versions of BBC1 and BBC2, "side channels" which will broadcast extra programmes related to what is on the main channels and several paid-for channels featuring programming from the BBC archives. [63] June – Radio 1 starts live streaming on the internet. [64]