Keeping Track

For many years on a Monday morning, in a gap between Today and the 9 o'clock news, Radio 4 used to feature a series of programme, more often than not presented by the late John Ebdon, that plundered the archive for unusual and quirky nuggets. In a similar vein this sound clip comes a short series that aired in 1980 called Keeping Track on "the art, science and business of sound recording." Here, the presenter, Peter Clayton, talks to Tony Trebble, at the time the BBC's Sound Archive Librarian, and asks him to select some of his favourites pieces from the collection. Tony Trebble died in April 2015. You can read more about Tony and the work of the BBC Sound Archives on my blog Random Radio Jottings.