"People Don't Like Basements But Tapes Do" - A Tour of the BBC Film Archive at Windmill Road

"People Don't Like Basements But Tapes Do" - A Tour of the BBC Film Archive at Windmill Road by Martin Belam

In 2005 I had the good fortune to get a guided tour around the BBC's Film Archives at Windmill Road. The numbers of items stored by the BBC's Information & Archives department is staggering - I noted down numbers like "26 million newspaper cuttings, 3 million still photographs, 4½ million pieces of sheet music", and that was just a fraction of the statistics quoted at me. Find out more about the work done there.

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