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The Collection explores some of the world's most exciting record collections.

The Collection explores some of the world's most exciting record collections, sharing the infinite stories that spring from the music within them.

The Collection explores some of the world's largest and most exciting record collections, picking out the best of the best tracks, and sharing the infinite stories that spring from those discoveries.

The Collection: BBC Vaults: Amy Lamé and Bob Stanley

Amy Lamé and Bob Stanley

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Collection, BBC Vaults, Amy Lamé and Bob Stanley

Joe Meek, The Kinks and Sandy Denny: take a deep dive into the BBC archive.

Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley joins Amy Lamé, as they explore the vast music vaults of the BBC Archive Centre - home to hundreds of thousands of records.

BBC 6 Music’s Amy Lamé is joined by Bob Stanley to explore the vast vaults of the BBC archive centre – home to hundreds of thousands of records, including rare gems which are no longer commercially available.

Bob is a member of indie pop group Saint Etienne alongside his parallel career as a music journalist and author.

They'll be guided through a specially curated listening selection by grams library manager Oscar Paul - including tracks produced by pioneering sound engineer Joe Meek.

Producer: Becca Bryers
Editor: James Cook

With thanks to the collections and teams across BBC Archives Technology and Services.

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Classic concerts & sessions from the BBC's vast music store. It's your musical heritage.

BBC 6 Music brings together the cutting edge music of today, the iconic and groundbreaking music of the past 40 years and unlimited access

6 Music presenters invite a guest to go through the BBC archive with them.

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