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Kev You may be interested in the program below. Shel > ---------- > From: Fred Lipsett[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:41 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [ARSCLIST] A propos Queen Victoria > > A propos the recent discussion of a recording by Queen Victoria, BBC > Radio 4 will be webcasting an hour long program about early British > recordings, and the Queen will be among those mentioned. The program is a > regular one called The Archive Hour to which I often listen. The webcast > will be on Saturday June 28th at 3:00 pm EDT, and may be heard best on > Internet Explorer at > > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/> > > If you click on "Listen Live" a radio player appears, which uses Real > Player. The program is archived for a week at the same site, and can be > heard at your convenience by selecting "Listen Again," > > Here is a description of the program, from the "What's On" part of the > site. > > The Archive Hour > How True? > > At the end of the 19th century, sound recording gave the world a new > resource of immense historical importance; the evidence of authentic > witness - or did it? The BBC has a handful of recordings of Gladstone, but > each is strangely different. Oscar Wilde, Queen Victoria and Henry Irving > are all in the archive, but are these recordings actually them? Sean > Street, Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University, investigates these > distant voices - and some more recent such as Churchill's - revealing how > true they are, how we know and if it matters anyway. He questions too if, > in our increasingly virtual world, authenticity is possible at all. > > Fred Lipsett > Ottawa >