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Has anyone got any modern insight on how the BBC archive is looking right now? Especially when it comes to Radio, mainly Radio 1?

Around 5 or so years ago I did some short term work for the BBC. And had access to BBC Redux, which at the time was the BBC's internal archive go-to. I searched for Radio 1 stuff but could only get anything from July 2007 to the current day. 

Redux mainly automatically captured and uploaded the freeview output from July 07 onwards. There was archive content in there, but mainly TV stuff. Which bizarrely included lots of circa 2000 VHS rips of BBC breakfast with Jeremy Bowen with his epic mustache of the time.

Redux has now since been integrated with other elements of BBC archive. I no longer have access to any of it at all. So if anyone knows, what's in there these days? Is there any classic Scott Mills early breakfast gold locked away, Chris Moyles, Mark and Lard... Chappers and Dave? Would be interesting to know. 

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I mean the final Mills days at Radio 1 was very reliant on our content up until the more recent years. So I'm not sure they're any further forward with really old content. There's still the odd show kicking about from Mark and Lard, Mark Goodier, Backstage, and Sunday Surgery (whooooo?!)

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On 3/23/2023 at 5:41 PM, Jono said:

I mean the final Mills days at Radio 1 was very reliant on our content up until the more recent years. So I'm not sure they're any further forward with really old content. There's still the odd show kicking about from Mark and Lard, Mark Goodier, Backstage, and Sunday Surgery (whooooo?!)

Yeah I can't imagine they kept every single show. When Radio 1 reached 50 a few years ago I know from a few people, that old producers were contacted to see what material they had. If any. I think live shows, special guests etc were probably kept.

I remember something in 2006 called 'BBC Infax', which was public. You couldn't download anything, but it was a small window into what they had sitting about. It was only around for 12 months or so and nothing has really replaced it as such.

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It's also a sad reality that given the volume of output - what do you keep?

Even on our favourite shows, how much of the output is real gold.  There's the odd very funny moment on Vick and Jordan or Greg's show but on the average Radio 1 day how much of most of the output ever needs heard again?  (Ditto for all other stations)

Probably a question of producers making an effort to snip the stand out moments as they go along. 

 

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6 hours ago, AndyK77 said:

It's also a sad reality that given the volume of output - what do you keep?

Even on our favourite shows, how much of the output is real gold.  There's the odd very funny moment on Vick and Jordan or Greg's show but on the average Radio 1 day how much of most of the output ever needs heard again?  (Ditto for all other stations)

Probably a question of producers making an effort to snip the stand out moments as they go along. 

 

Since around June 2007, every Radio 1/2/3/4/5 etc show has been kept. A project called Redux started that year and it basically captured the free view output of TV and radio from the BBC. Before that it's probably scattered here and there. Shows from big news events, big guests, live shows etc were kept from what I can gather.

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