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Episode 1:
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Episode 2:
Episode 2 of our podcast, From the Archive, picks up with
the second part of our interview with Kaleidoscope CEO Chris Perry. In the
previous episode, we talked at great lengths about missing episodes, television
preservation and archives. This episode is no different! We talk a lot about
the finds that Kaleidoscope announced this year including a streak of ABC/BBC
material announced in October, we talk a little about the double-edge sword a
prominent series like DOCTOR WHO does to the overall publicity of missing
episodes and we talk a lot about the famous Bob Monkhouse archive. We have a
lively and controversial discussion about TILL DEATH US DO PART that may go
against the norm. There may be some language used in historical context on this
program. The views and opinions of this conversation are those of people on the
podcast and do not necessarily reflect those of Kaleidoscope or From the
Archive. After the interview, there is reflection about 80 years of BBC
television and some letters are read from the RADIO TIMES regarding the public
taking to the new Doctor Patrick Troughton during the broadcast run of POWER OF
THE DALEKS.
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Episode 3:
We celebrate one of the most influential comedies that has
ever come out of the BBC, HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR but even more so we celebrate
Tony Hancock himself. This episode features the first of a two part interview
with the Archivist of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, Tristan
Brittain-Dissont. He brought some incredible audio to share over the course of
the two episodes. This episode we hear a recently discovered crystal clear clip
from THE HORROR SERIAL that has only previously existed as a very poor audio
copy and an audio clip from the recently found soundtrack to THE ITALIAN MAID. Plus
information of how it was found.
We then catch up with Chris Perry over the recently
announced discoveries that have been announced by Kaleidoscope including some
exclusive audio clips to the recently recovered Z CARS episode TRUTH OR DARE
and a clip from MY PAL BOB. We also talk about Kaleidoscope’s new online research
tool culminating in over 30 years of research into British television, TV Brain
and how everyone can have access to this powerful database.
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Episode 4:
We are very excited to present an EXTENDED LENGTH edition of
this podcast. We have many rare clips included in it that we are proud to be
able to present here. First and foremost, we continue our conversation with
Tristan Brittain-Dissont. Tristan is the archivist for the Tony Hancock
Appreciation Society. He brought a ton of wonderful and rare Tony Hancock audio
clips that put some perspective not only on his career and his work habits but
also the rise of the comedy writing legend duo Galton & Simpson. Some of
the clips included are bits cut out of HANCOCK HALF HOUR radio episodes such as
“Fred’s Pie Stall”, we have audio recorded by Tony himself that he used for
learning his lines and we include a wonderfully long segment clocking in over 7
minutes from the rare radio series CALLING ALL FORCES that features Tony in
this clip. There are some great clips from the series HAPPY GO LUCKY featured
too.
Just as we were working on this episode, we got call from Tristan
who told us more material of interest had been found and would we mind talking
about them on this podcast? The answer was, of course, YES! So, we have a quick
conversation with Martin Gibbons who is the Social Media Manager for the Tony
Hancock Appreciation Society. He dazzled us with audio clips recorded from the
original transmission of the first broadcast episode of THE BLACKPOOL SHOW from
June 1966 where Tony does a little singing and then forgets the first act he is
supposed to introduce! We share an audio clip from another recently found
domestic audio recording of COMEDY PLAYHOUSE starring Harry H. Corbett. Perhaps
the most baffling is the material discovered from off-air audio recordings of
STEPTOE AND SON from 1963. This is really worth listening to and makes you
wonder about the completeness of the versions released on DVD.
Finally we say farewell to Alan Simpson who has given many
of us so many laughs over the years with his writing partner Ray Galton. We put
together a little tribute to him using audio in his own words along with audio
from Ray Galton and even Dennis Main Wilson. Equally exciting is we tie it all
back to where their career started by playing a recording of the first joke
they ever sold to the BBC. We are extremely proud to present this episode and
we hope you enjoy it! It may not be able to all be heard in one sitting and it
certainly needs listening to more than once!
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Episode 5:
We are pleased as punch in this episode of our podcast as we
are able to have a conversation with Sue Malden! Sue was named the first BBC
Archive Selector back in 1978 and her work revolutionised the way programs have
been selected and kept in archives for not only the BBC but the UK and beyond.
Our conversation goes a lot into the archive selection process she put together
plus we talk about the work she is doing in the field now. Of course we touch
on her project she initiated to track down what might have happened to episodes
of lost BBC series. She eventually chose DOCTOR WHO but she talks about some of
the other series she considered looking into first. It’s a not only a great
conversation about archive television but it’s a great conversation about
television archiving.
We next move onto a quick conversation with BBC South
Producer Richard Latto who recently returned an episode of HUGH AND I called
“The Girl on the Poster” from 1964. He talks about where the print has been and
how this isn’t the first time the film collector who owns this print has helped
out the BBC Archives. We talk with Oliver Crocker who wrote “All Memories Great
& Small” from Miwk Publishing about the passing of Robert Hardy. He not
only shares great memories of interviewing Robert Hardy for his book but also
shares some personal audio of the two talking. Finally, we check in with Chris
Perry who gives us all the information for the upcoming Kaleidoscope event on
2/9/17 at Birmingham City University. It’s going to be a fantastic event with
great guests and rare material. We share all the information!
If you have feedback or questions you would like to have
read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk.
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.
