Monday, December 17, 2018

HISTORIC BROADCASTS FROM THE BBC


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From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:29:43 -0800
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (UK) BBC Genome and Radio Times

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) placed the Radio Times from the 1940s online. Additionally, the BBC Genome website had added listening to or watching historic broadcasts from 1923-2009  see: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/. Here you can search for BBC programs, people, dates and Radio Times editions.  There are more than 5 million program listings in Genome, remembering it reflects the attitudes and standards of when the program was first aired which may be different than those of today.  There is an ongoing project to link the program listings to the relevant recording thus far only 18,000 programs have been linked. To read more about this see: https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-46465871

The BBC Archive includes a lot of World War ll materials. One is from Witnessing the Holocaust, personal accounts of persecution and genocide by the Nazis. From April 1, 1945 a reporter provides a firsthand account Buchenwald Concentration Camp To hear the interview you need to run the adobe flash that they provide. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5107.shtml

There are more broadcasts from the Holocaust with links on the right side of the above archival recording.

Thank you to Peter Calver, LostCousins Newsletter for informing us of this new feature of the BBC.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee