Thank you CJB for this. 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz428

On Sat, 4/27/19, CJB <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 Subject: [ARSCLIST] BBC - The story of sound recording Music Extra
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 The story of sound recording
 Music ExtraA History of Music and
 Technology
 
 Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason tells the
 story of how we first captured
 sound, giving birth to a global
 recording industry.
 
 While music has advanced in its
 complexity over the millennia, the
 means of recording it remained the
 same: it had to be written down.
 
 It took until the back-half of the 19th
 Century before credible
 attempts were made to bottle sound for
 the first time, and in 1877
 Thomas Edison produced the Phonograph.
 
 Over the next century, major advances
 were made in recording formats,
 recording duration, and sound quality,
 from the Gramophone record to
 the cassette tape to the compact disc.
 
 But as this programme reveals, cost and
 convenience played a major
 role in this progress, rather than the
 quality of technology -
 sometimes the best inventions didn't
 win out.
 
 The series is produced in association
 with the Open University.
 
 CONTRIBUTORS
 
 Prof Mark Katz, University of North
 Carolina
 Richard Osborne, Middlesex University
 Nick Morgan, writer on music history
 Sophie Maisonneuve, Université Paris
 Descartes
 Prof Andre Millard, University of
 Alabama at Birmingham
 Sean Williams, The Open University
 Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound
 Forever: An Aural History of
 Recorded Music
 
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