A Century of Steam - P&O Heritage Archive Audio

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Radio Walks & Sound Stories

Jonathan Kempster - oral history

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Oral History and Audio Storytelling - the pictures are better on radio. "Plenty of time, plenty of tape, and few questions", (pioneering oral historian George Ewart Evans, 1909-1988, https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/George-Ewart-Evans-collection). Listen to Radio Walks on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_kempster https://walklistencreate.org/sound-walk-september/sound-walk-september-awards/

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A Century of Steam - P&O Heritage Archive Audio

Radio Walks & Sound Stories

41 minutes 53 seconds

2 years ago

A Century of Steam - P&O Heritage Archive Audio

A Century of Steam – from the sound collection of P&O Heritage Archive, a recently conserved copy of a BBC radio programme broadcast on the National Programme on the 6th of October 1937 to celebrate the Centenary of the P&O shipping line, (originally produced by Felix Felton).
The audio material was recovered from eleven 12-inch acetate cellulose-lacquer grooved 78rpm radio transcription discs, conserved in the P&O archive, and digitally transferred.
Image shows the company’s new ship, Stratheden - her maiden voyage to Brisbane began on Christmas Eve 1937, and she continued in company service until 1964.
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Curated by: Susie Cox, Senior Curator, P&O Heritage Archive, London
Audio Preservation by: Jonathan Kempster, MIPS
See the latest P&O Heritage Archive exhibition here: www.poheritage.com/the-collection

[Main image: Radio Times 1/10/1937]
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