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16/10/2014
BBC Launches Online Site To Trace Lost Programmes
The BBC has launched the Genome Project, an online searchable catalogue of TV and radio programmes.
The Project is based on digital scans of listings from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009, with the aim being that the public could help the broadcaster identify and find copies of lost shows.
The database contains 4,423,654 programmes are included, from 4,469 Radio Times issues.
It is hoped that the project could lead to the discovery of home recordings of early BBC broadcasts; a lot of which were not recorded, were destroyed or wiped over.
(MH/IT)
The Project is based on digital scans of listings from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009, with the aim being that the public could help the broadcaster identify and find copies of lost shows.
The database contains 4,423,654 programmes are included, from 4,469 Radio Times issues.
It is hoped that the project could lead to the discovery of home recordings of early BBC broadcasts; a lot of which were not recorded, were destroyed or wiped over.
(MH/IT)
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