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larsen525
11-02-2010, 07:35 AM
A very interesting article here. Shops in the town of Shepton Mallet spent a week each trading in the style and manner of the Victorian, Edwardian, Interwar, World War II, 1960s and 1970s eras, for a BBC program.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11345819 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11345819)

Of course, the Beeb could just have examined its own archives and watched AYBS? Grace Brothers included elements of several of those eras. :)

- E.
sonosun
11-02-2010, 08:11 AM
Very interesting Erik. I understand the BBC has been cleaning out it's archives and many older programs are gone.
larsen525
11-02-2010, 09:23 AM
Very interesting Erik. I understand the BBC has been cleaning out it's archives and many older programs are gone.

AFAIK the wiping isn't an on-going process, but previously the Beeb (and other broadcasters, to be fair) did wipe a lot of old programs. This was done because videotape was expensive in those days, storage space was short, and the material wasn't thought to be worth keeping. See

www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/missing.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/missing.shtml)

For example, Terry Jones actually had to smuggle out the master tapes of the first series of Monty Python!

- E.