The BBC Television Archive.
The BBC haven't got copies of everything they broadcast in the archive. Find out why they got the items they've got and how the BBC tries to keep them safe in this interview with Adam Lee, BBC Television Archive expert.
The BBC have got about 4 million physical items for TV and radio. That's equivalent to 600,000 hours of TV content and about 350,000 hours of radio. So they are getting very close now to a million hours of material. They also now have a New Media archive, which is keeping a record of the content that goes out on the BBC's websites. The BBC also have large sheet-music collections. They have press cuttings going back 40 years as well. So it's a very large-scale operation.
The copyright of this material resides with the British Broadcasting Corporation and is featured here to publicise the work the corporation undertakes in preserving its output on all platforms.
This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.
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I think this clip really highlights the way society has changed, what we value, how we view our leisure time. It also shows how hard it is to keep up with changing technology but it is great to see that the BBC is making an effort to update older obsolete technologies to digital formats.
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I think this clip really highlights the way society has changed, what we value, how we view our leisure time. It also shows how hard it is to keep up with changing technology but it is great to see that the BBC is making an effort to update older obsolete technologies to digital formats.