From the Archive Episode 7: Missing Believed Wiped Preview
From the Archive: A British Television Podcast
Release Date: 12/12/2017
From the Archive Ep 15: Blue Peter
From the Archive: A British Television Podcast
Blue Peter was such a facet of BBC television for so many years. Although still on CBBC, the good ol’ days come from when it was on BBC1. We wanted to celebrate the golden era of Blue Peter and talk to some folks involved with the programme! We talk with presenters Peter Purves, Gethin Jones and previous Blue Peter Editor Ricard Marson for a very honest discussion about this landmark BBC series.
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14-From the Archive-Are You Being Served Special
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Are You Being Served? is one of those great series. I interview Mike Berry, who played Mr. Spooner. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more in depth interview with him as we talk about all things from his early career starting out as a musician in the 1960s, modeling, Worzel Gummidge and of course Are You Being Served?
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From the Archive Ep. 13: The Box of Delights with Renny Rye
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For many of us, our festive viewing includes the groundbreaking 1984 BBC television adaptation of The Box Of Delights. This has enthralled viewers for 35 years. We have decided that we needed to celebrate this milestone by having a conversation with the director of this incredible serial, Renny Rye. Take a listen as we talk with Renny about his career and how he got connected with The Box of Delights. It’s a fun conversation that spans not only that series but some of his other work too.
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From the Archive ep 12: DW Randolph Tapes and The Beatles
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This episode focuses on the recently discovered Doctor Who audio recordings known as The Randolph Tapes with analysis from Robert Franks and audio examples. Then, we talk with Beatles Expert Keith Badman about off-air audio recordings of Beatles missing TV broadcasts. Finally, we announce the find of a previously lost Rolling Stones audio clip from a TV appearance from the 1960s. This is a fantastic episode!
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From the Archive Episode 11: Dad’s Army 50th Anniversary
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Permission to upload a new episode of the podcast Sir!
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From the Archive Episode 10: Tales of Television Centre & ITV Archives
From the Archive: A British Television Podcast
This episode is a conversation with Director Richard Marson about the making of his 2012 BBC4 documentary, "Tales of Television Centre" and a conversation with ITV Archive Manager Andrew Gavaghan!
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From the Archive Episode 9: Doctor Who Season 12 Blu-ray Set Edition
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Doctor Who has an established history of DVD sets chocked full of amazing extras and interesting documentaries about the series’ past. Now, as classic Doctor Who enters the realm of Blu-ray sets by season, how do they top themselves? This episode of From the Archive: A British Television Podcast, takes a look at how the team lead by Russell Minton decided to evolve the range to not only make it more appealing to fans but unleash the floodgates of archive material never made available to the public before now. We talk with Russell Minton about his vision for these sets, Richard Bignell about...
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From the Archive Episode 8: The Top 100 Lost TV Shows/BBC Genome
From the Archive: A British Television Podcast
We talk with Ray Langstone about the Top 100 Lost TV Shows and Jake Berger about the BBC Genome project!
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From the Archive Episode 7: Missing Believed Wiped Preview
From the Archive: A British Television Podcast
It’s been an exciting year for the return of missing material and one of the great ways to see some of this material is to go to the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event on the 16th of December! We take time in this episode to preview some of the awesomeness that is going to be shown this year! We talk with two gentlemen who do not need introductions but we will do so anyway: Dick Fiddy TV Historian for the BFI who founded the Missing Believed Wiped event in 1993. We talk about the recent recoveries that will be shown at the event but also what else is going on at the BFI. At the time of...
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From the Archive Episode 6: Grace Gibson Productions
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We talk about the recent find of the soundtrack to an “Adam Adamant Lives!”. We interview Tim Emblem-English who found the recording about how this find was almost completely looked over. We also scoured through the Kaleidoscope archives to bring out a rare interview with Verity Lambert as she shares some of her thoughts on the production of “Adam Adamant Lives!”.
info_outlineIt’s been an exciting year for the return of missing material and one of the great ways to see some of this material is to go to the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event on the 16th of December! We take time in this episode to preview some of the awesomeness that is going to be shown this year!
We talk with two gentlemen who do not need introductions but we will do so anyway: Dick Fiddy TV Historian for the BFI who founded the Missing Believed Wiped event in 1993. We talk about the recent recoveries that will be shown at the event but also what else is going on at the BFI. At the time of publication of this podcast, the BFI is wrapping up its Sydney Newman season and we can a sneak peek at a couple of other events that have yet to be formally announced.
We then talk to Ed Stradling. Ed is a freelance Producer who has done extensive work telling the story of DOCTOR WHO through some of its most famous periods through documentaries but in this episode, we talk about his passion for missing British television material. He has been looking through countless hours of domestic recordings. What is he looking for? What is he going to have for us to watch at Missing Believed Wiped!
Finally, this podcast has been going for a year! Your host is celebrating this by traveling to the UK and will be at Missing Believed Wiped! If you are going to be there, let me know! I would love to say hi!
If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening.