Perhaps inquiries to the BBC and ABC themselves might help. I know that Warren Fahey has contacts with the ABC re: putting ABC folk song material from their archives onto his website - try emailing him at [log in to unmask] <http://www.warrenfahey.com/>

Also too you could email the British Library Sound Archives <http://www.bl.uk/nsa> which holds an amount of BBC material. Search the catalogue <http://cadensa.bl.uk/cgi-bin/webcat> for "Wilfrid Thomas" - it seems that there is some material there.

Good luck

Chris B.


--- On Thu, 22/12/11, Graham McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Graham McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Slightly but not totally off topic - Wilfrid Thomas
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 3:26
> Some of you may know of Wilfrid
> Thomas, a British/Australian  broadcaster
> and sometimes singer who had regular programs on the BBC
> and the ABC from
> 1940 through to 1980. The NFSA has his tape collection of
> current affairs
> reporting from all over. I am trying to track down who may
> now own the
> copyright on his material we have here, and trying to find
> out if he had
> any children or other close family. He died in 1991 and an
> obituary was
> published in The Times in London on 23 August that year. As
> far as I can
> tell this should be available online, but we don't have any
> access to it
> and I have spent the morning trying to find a library
> around the country
> who does, but with no success. Any any of our ARSC
> collegues can access
> The Times from 1991 and find this obit I would be very
> grateful. I will
> make no comment about Rubert Murdoch and his paywall.
>
> Thanks
>
> graham
>
> Graham McDonald
> Recorded Sound Archivist
> National Film and Sound Archive of Australia,
> McCoy Circuit, Acton, Canberra  ACT  2601
> Tel:  02 6248 2192
> www.nfsa.gov.au
>