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[sheddyian]

The BBC have just launched the beta of their Radio Times archive.  They have scanned in the Radio & TV listings from every Radio Times from 1929 until 2009, OCR'd it and the results are now available online. 

It's searchable, or you can just browse to a particular channel at a particular date and look at what was on.

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

There's plenty of OCR errors, but if you read the background info, they want you to help correct them by spotting mistakes and letting them know.

I have already spent too many hours just browsing through dates of relevance to me, or just dates of interest - the outbreak of WWII has almost all programmes replaced with gramophone records, with things settling down to normal again over the following few weeks.

Ian

[kitz]

Ohh  good link thank you - Just sent a linky to someone of the listings on the day they were born

[sheddyian]

Just a bump of my own thread to note that the BBC genome project now has an extra feature - it shows links to the iplayer where a programme exists to be watched or listened to.

As well as the 7 or 30 day catchup service, the iPlayer has a number of collections of programmes that are available "indefinitely", and these are now indexed to the BBC Genome project.

Thus, if you search for "Desert Island Discs", you'll get links to the many editions that are available online.

Or, to just browse through what's available, click on advanced search, tick the "programme available" button and do a blank search.  you can then sort by date, with oldest first.

Thus, the oldest programme available to listen to is part 3 of "The Sword in the Stone" from 25th June 1939, and it's quite fascinating to hear - the quality is impressive too.

BBC Genome http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

Ian