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Re: James R Curry - World Service edits

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James R CurryOct 18, 2018

The archive is, sadly, not on-line anymore. I assume it must still exist somewhere at the BBC.

At the time, you had to send an email and request access. A nice gentleman from the BBC granted it to me, with the request that I try to accurately tag things as I listen to them.

Sadly, a few months later, the site was gone.

If you'd have asked me at the time, I would have pulled things from there for you. I wish it was still around today as a resource.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:47 AM, charles_rooke@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

It included some comedy (eg. series 2 of 'The Airport' from 1996) and quite a few panel shows in addition to JAM (eg. Break a Leg, Hoax, Inspiration, My Music). The WS edits of My Music were typically 2 minutes longer than their TS counterparts - and included some episodes not released by TS.

The WS Archive was at http://worldservice. prototyping.bbc.co.uk/ . It's no longer there of course. The front page is available on The Wayback Machine, but username and password can't get you into the archive.

Charlie

---In just-a-minute@..., <clitheroekid@...> wrote :

Thank you very much James.

I'm interested not simply in 'Just A Minute', I knew you had already
investigated this show, but also in the possibility that other light
entertainment shows may survive in the World Service archive.

My understanding is that the recordings which it has are tagged in at least
three categories: drama, documentaries, and comedy. Which suggests that
there actually are World Service drama and comedy recordings.

Do you happen to know if any of this content can be accessed today?

There are various references on the BBC website to World Service Digital
Archive, but I can't seem to find it. I am not even looking for a place to
listen to audio. Initially I would be happy to find a purely written source,
e.g. a database, simply listing what comedy recordings survive in WS
archives.

Steve

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