"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:01:18 -0000, "the_constructor"
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

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I was also thinking along the same lines.
Was it last year or the year before, the BBC were asking people if
they had
certasin copies of a particular program because they, the BBC, had
lost them
or for some reason couldn't find them. So much for that law then.
James

I do remember seeing the request on tv, however, can't remember what
archive stuff they wanted. I have quite a collection of nature progs
on tape, and lately on dvd, can't get enough of them, even buy dvds
on
the subject.


IIRC much of the TV programmes [1] the BBC asked for predated the
consumer era VCR, many of the recordings that surfaced were either
long lost (read saved from the skip) BBC recordings or very early (
for example the Philips V2000 or earlier) home recordings.

[1] they also asked for quite a few audio recordings of radio
programmes.