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Archive on 4: Our Archive Century: The Arts

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Our Archive Century, The Arts

A celebration of a hundred years of BBC the archives and their importance to the Arts.

The third in the series marking a hundred years of the BBC through a celebration of the archive, with today's focus on the impact and importance to the Arts in Britain.

In the third and final programme in the series celebrating a hundred years of the BBC through the written, audio and TV archive, Classicist Mary Beard and critic Louisa Buck rummage around in the archival trove to demonstrate why this material is so important to the arts in Britain.  
Rather than just recording events and hearing from artists, the archive is rich in unique artistic material specially created for the new audio and TV  technologies.  Radio and TV dramas, music and the voices of those who created it are at the heart of the programme alongside the valiant attempts to discuss, debate and critique the arts and to accommodate popular culture alongside the high-minded mission statements of the BBC's founders.
And with a Classicist presenting there's special emphasis on the impact of discoveries made about the ancient world and re-imaginings of Classical Drama and literature.

Producer:  Tom Alban

Archive on 4: Our Archive Century

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

A celebration of the stories, style and insights of the BBC archives.

A series marking one hundred years of the BBC through the riches to be found in the corporation's broadcast archive.

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