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Re: James R Curry - World Service edits

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James R CurryOct 16, 2018

This is going back a bit!

The World Service versions of the episode seemed to be completely separate edits, based off the original UK versions rather than the Transcription Service versions. They were closer in length to the original shows and didn't exhibit the runtime restriction that the vinyl format of the transcription service imposed on material.

I ripped every episode that was posted on the site and catalogued some of the edits at the time, mostly in the interests of getting the most complete version of the show into our collective archives. My enthusiasm waned when my incessant posting about minor differences ran at least one gentleman off the list.

That I remember, the cuts to these versions tended to be out of racial sensitivity to not risk upsetting an international audience. Derek Nimmo's story about "An untouchable in Bombay" was excised from episode #462, for example.

I don't believe I still have the set, unfortunately. I rather regret deleting it, but I only kept material that was either missing from our collection or in notably better quality. I didn't have much extra disk space at the time. Of course, today I have 40TB of network attached storage in the house and would have no problem stashing multiple versions of everything.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Clitheroe Kid clitheroekid@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:
I have a note from some time ago, about the existence of BBC World Service

edits of 'Just A Minute', posted by James Curry.

Can anyone add anything? I'm interested in the fact that a separate World

Service archive exists, which potentially contains an entire series of

transcription edits on vinyl discs, entirely separate from the ordinary

Transcription Services edits held by BBC Worldwide.

Potentially, this might mean a different set of episodes existing as World

Service edits; or possibly the same shows, but containing some rounds which

were not included in the ordinary TS edits.

Asking about World Service recently, I'm told that it's an entirely separate

archive, and has totally different rules. Will they hold different versions

of the shows? Was 'Just A Minute' specially edited for WS? To what extent

did World Service use the regular TS versions of the episodes?

I'd be interested if anyone can cast any light at all on any aspect of the

World Service's archives, or its archiving policy.

Steve

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To: just-a-minute@...

Subject: [just-a-minute] 462 - Goose - a new edit

The ABC broadcasts are another thing entirely. While the World Service

is/was an international broadcast fully owned by the BBC, international

stations such as ABC picked up their copies from the BBC Transcription

Service (now BBC Radio International), the syndication arm of BBC Radio.

Historically, Transcription Service copies were shipped on records with a

limited total length, and so the episodes were edited down to fit that

length. In the case of Just a Minute (and I'm sure many other BBC quizzes

and comedies), they unfortunately would make that target by removing at

least one entire round from the show.

As such, there are now likely three edits for a lot of shows:

1. The original Radio 4/Home Service transmission version.

2. The World Service edit.

3. The Transcription Service edit.

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