We are delighted to announce that MediaHub now searches a
significant audio collection, LBC/IRN.
The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News
audio archive consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs
from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive
in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period. This digitised
collection focuses on the most noteworthy content – approximately 3,000 hours
of recordings relating to news and current affairs. Digitisation of this
resource was funded via the JISC Digitisation Programme.
The collection will be of interest to anyone studying,
teaching or researching media related subject areas, giving access to
eyewitness reports of moments in history as well as broader analysis of news
events in discussion programmes and public information broadcasts. It makes an
important contribution to charting the history of radio broadcasting, offering
an alternative view to the BBC’s archive collection.
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