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	Podcast:		British Library Podcasts
	Episode:		Surface Scanning of Archived Sound Recordings
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:07:43
	Publish Date:		2008-12-16 06:00:00
	Description:		Since December 2003, the British Library Sound Archive has been a partner in the Surface Scanning of Archived Sound Recordings research project at the University of Southampton. Professor John McBride, the project's manager and Nigel Bewley, head sound engineer in the Sound Archive, discuss the project. This podcast contains audio transferred by the project from the British Library's earliest object containing recorded sound, a Thomas Alva Edison tinfoil recording of c. 1877, which is unplayable by conventional means. Although the audio is of poor quality, it's extraordinary that the 130-year-old recording survives and is recoverable at all.
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