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BBC puts surviving Reith Lecture recordings online
BBC puts surviving Reith Lecture recordings online
27 June 2011 by James Hayes
Legend has it that when Lord Reith had an office in Savoy Place - part of which formed the BBC's home in the late 1920s, and now of course the IET's London HQ - he used to use Big Ben, plainly visible from his Embankment-facing window - as his 'office clock'... all of which serves as a rather weak link to
the news that BBC Radio 4 has released hundreds of hours of The Reith Lectures from its archives to coincide with the broadcast of this year's first lecture.
Available to download and keep as podcasts or to listen to on demand on the Radio 4 website, the archive includes 240 recordings of some of the great thinkers of the last 60 years. The site will also carry every Reith Lecture transcript from 1948 to 2010.
The audio archive is imcomplete, the BBC admits: recordings of some lectures given in the first 30 years were not retained, and the appeal is out to the public if they happen to possess any of the missing items.
Reith Lectures 1948-1975 Reith Lectures 1976-2010
the news that BBC Radio 4 has released hundreds of hours of The Reith Lectures from its archives to coincide with the broadcast of this year's first lecture.
Available to download and keep as podcasts or to listen to on demand on the Radio 4 website, the archive includes 240 recordings of some of the great thinkers of the last 60 years. The site will also carry every Reith Lecture transcript from 1948 to 2010.
The audio archive is imcomplete, the BBC admits: recordings of some lectures given in the first 30 years were not retained, and the appeal is out to the public if they happen to possess any of the missing items.
Reith Lectures 1948-1975 Reith Lectures 1976-2010
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