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About the Archival Sound Recordings Project

The British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings website gives UK Higher and Further Education staff and students free access to over 12,000 recordings as follows:

* 400 popular music tracks (mostly British bands from the 1930s to 1990s)
* African Writers’ Club (250 hours on art, literature, music and politics)
* Art and design interviews (e.g. Denys Lasdun, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego)
* Beethoven String Quartets (750 recordings from the last 100 years
* David Rycroft Africa recordings (music and poetry, mainly from Southern Africa)
* Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings (1,500 recordings from 26 culture groups)
* Oral history of jazz in Britain (with musicians, promoters and label-owners)
* Records and record players (developments in recording technology)
* Sony Radio Awards – drama (every short-listed play 1986-1997)
* Soundscapes (evocative environmental sounds from Great Britain and Canada)
* St Mary-le-Bow public debates (e.g. John Betjeman, Jonathan Miller, Diana Rigg)