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Since people seem to like the bits of continuity Lord Reith has been topping & tailing the BBC set, here's some more.
These are all from old reels and the clips are unedited, meaning I don't have any more of each particular clip. A lot of these had been recorded over by other things where the tape had been used and re-used many times. It's interesting but also totally frustrating when something good starts, then ends so soon before it's had time to even get started (Vol.2 has 15 seconds of Peggy Seeger & Guy Carawan from 1957!)
And if anyone has any ideas on a more accurate identification of some of the more vaguer clips, please chime in!
(People who scour other sites might recognise some of the clips as I already posted some bits on youtube and elsewhere.)



BBC Radio Fragments Vol.01

Mainly found at the end of reels, having been recorded over by something usually more mundane.

1952.01.06 The Younger Generation Sunday Half Hour (Light)
1952.01.xx Family Favourites (Light)
1952.01or02.xx Take It From Here (Home)

1952.01or02.xx Norman Brooks & His Lancers (Home)
-Old-time dance music played by Norman Brooks & His Lancers, with Lionel Kivvle(?) as master of ceremonies.
- ?
- The Jazz Treat / The Jazz Twinkle(?)
- The Merry Widow (Waltz)

1952.06.22 A Salute To Britain (Light)
- US Air Force Symphony Orchestra, from Bolling Air Force Base in Washington DC.
Col. George S. Howard - conductor. Sgt. Bill Jones - baritone soloist. And the Singing Sergeants under the direction of Lt. Robert Landers
- Oh Susanna
- Sgt. Bill Jones - Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
- Camptown Races

Those 5 from the oldest reel I've handled. Presented in chronological order, so Salute To Britain appeared on the reel first, followed by a fragment of Norman Brooks that it'd been recorded over, which in turn had been recorded over Take It From Here, etc, like a palimpsest.

1953 Sports Today - Gordon Bridge (USA)
- Small snippet of US radio from shortwave. The date may be way off.

1955 CBC Canada - Earl Fisher in Montreal
1955 CKLX Canada
- Two snippets from shortwave. Date may be off, the first may be possible to be dated from the baseball scores.

1955 Part of a play
1955 Programme about Pearl Harbour (Maybe from the "Scrapbook For..." series.)

1955.05.0x Housewives Choice, Five To Ten, Organ programme (Light Programme)
- Closing seconds of Nat Temple presenting "Housewives' Choice" / "Five To Ten" / Opening seconds of Organ Programme. Although from a reel, you can tell this originally came off a disc.

1955.05.26 The Show Goes On - Morecambe & Wise (Light)
Just a bit of a song and the end credits of an early Morecambe & Wise radio show. I wonder if the BBC have any of the complete shows? I assume not, because surely it's something we'd have heard repeated by now.

1955.06.24 Eddie Calvert (on records) - Kenneth Kendall (Home Service)
1955.07.31 Melody Hour, Down Your Way (Light Programme)
1956.01.xx Charlie Kunz programme announcement (Light Programme)
1956.06.24 The Countryside In June (Light)
1956.08.15 Blackpool Night, News (Light Programme)
1956.12.23 Concert Hour, announcement of bad reception (BBC TV)
1956.12.xx Political talk

1956.xx.xx Al Read Show (Light Programme)
- The last 8 minutes of a comedy show/

1956-1964 Epilogue - Lighten Our Darkness (Home Service)

1957 Round With The Music
Hosts Dennis Bresden(?) & Roy Bradford. I can't find any show in Genome that features those names and no show of that name is listed.

1957 Gallagher & Shean song with Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer
1957.05.xx Radio Luxembourg - Philishave ad - Ray Orchard

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This looks amazing....can’t wait for future volumes. Thanks very much :D
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These are fantastic!! DO please post further volumes when you can :) Absolutely brilliant!!! Thank you SO much!

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Awesome stuff!
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Fabulous!
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Here's another. I've been splitting these into cd-sized chunks. Maybe, like me, many people don't actually burn anything to audio cd but still prefer to listen to things in cd-sized chunks. I prefer to have things in these kind of sizes rather than having one huge folder with hours and hours in it.


BBC Radio Fragments Vol.02

Found on old reels, most of the show having been recorded over by something else so only these excerpts remain.

1957.08.19 Guitar Club (Light Programme) Hosted by Ken Sykora
? - ? (instrumental)
Jo Searle - Skylark
(Francisco Victory or Jose Nerino or Wally Whyton) - Pay Me My Money Down
Dave Shepherd (clarinet), Ike Isaacs (guit), Sammy Stokes (bass), Eddie Taylor (drums) - Shine

1957.10.06 Radio Newsreel - Funeral of King Haakon VII (Home Service)
1957.12.28 Those Were The Days, In Town Tonight (Home Service) Peggy Seeger & Guy Carawan (cuts off after just a few seconds)
1958 Fragment 1 - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
1958 Fragment 2 - talking about a composer
1958 Fragment 3 - two news clips
1958 Fragment 4 - Closedown and National Anthem
1958 Talking about looting

1958.05.20 Life Is A Song - Lys Assia (BBC TV)
- Lys Assia was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Here she is on a TV show in 1958, a quite decent line recording rather than mic-to-speaker.
- The Little Blue Man
- ?
- The Johnson Brothers - Little Serenade
- Dolce Far Niente
- "our wonderful dancers, from Paris, Elaine and Rodolph" (cut)
- (start cut) Apples, Peaches And Cherries
- ?
- Oh Mein Papa

1958.05.26 Hello Whitsun Playmates, Stargazers Music Shop (Light Programme)
1958.06.03 Boxing - Erskine vs London (Light Programme)

1958(July-Sept) Rosemary Squires and Jeremy Lubbock with The Reg Guest Quintet. (Light Programme, Friday, 2330-2355)
- (Last 13 minutes of a 25 min show)
- A Lady Loves (To Love)
- Wait Till You See Her
- The 920 Special
- Mr. Five By Five
- Goodbye
- End theme - It's A Pity To Say Goodnight

1958.10.09 In Memory Of Pope Pius XII - Rev. William Godfrey (Home Service)

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These are wonderful...thanks again.
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Fabulous!
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Am I posting these too fast? I can slow down if necessary?

Here's another cd-sized volume...


BBC Radio Fragments Vol.03

1958.10.20 Eric Winstone, with Joan Small
- How Deep Is The Ocean, How High is The Sky (Instrumental)
- Joan Small - More Than Ever
- Front Page Calypso (todays news in song)
- Joan Small - I'm In A Dancing Mood
- Joan Small - Hula Hoop

1958.11.03 Radio Newsreel - Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize (Light Programme)
- Also death of Dame Rose Macaulay, Cardinal Roncalli chosed to be new Pope - to be named Pope John XXIII, Yugoslav foreign minister Mr Popovic visits London, Talks in Paris
- This one was on a tiny little reel, as if the taper had snipped it out and saved it.

1958.12.24 Inspector Bruce Investigates (BBC TV)
- Children's Television: Playbox, BBC TV, 1710-1800. This included Inspector Bruce Investigates : "The Nightwatchmen's Fireside" by Vere Lorrimer. Ivan Owen as Inspector Bruce, James Raglan as Charlie Hinch, Eamonn Andrews - host

1958-1965 Where Are You Now - Wilfred Pickles (Light Programme)
1959 India & Pakistan
1959.01.22 Paul Temple, Where Are You Now (Light Programme)

1959.01.xx A Tribute to Mike Hawthorn (racing driver)
- Presumably broadcast not too long after his death on 22nd Jan.

1959.03.15 Just For You - Jack Train (Light Programme)
1959.03.xx Ad for event at RFH (The Fraser Hayes Four), News (Light Programme)
1959.06.23 News (Light Programme)

1959.09or10.xx Go Man Go (Light Programme)
- Presented by David Ede. Music by Laurie Mann, Ray Pilgrim & Colin Day, Bernard Rabin Band, Don Sanford, Rex Morris, The Hound Dogs.
- Broadcast every Monday at 1:00 - 1:45pm, with a news bulletin at 1:30, Broadcast live from the BBC's Paris Theatre, London.
- 'Til I Kissed You
- (news cut on original tape)
- Arthur Greenslade (organ)
- Midnight Flyer
- Plenty Good Lovin'
- Taboo [Instrumental, with "jungle" sounds]
- Mack The Knife

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Egg_Crisis wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:32 pm Am I posting these too fast? I can slow down if necessary?
No not at all...keep 'em coming. Thanks for the latest!
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