OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

[artisticforge .]

Hello

This is off-topic but it is of importance to the people who listen to the BBC.

Why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?
The original Paul Temple serials, before Peter Cooke
Dick Barton - Special Agent

granted some of these programs were distributed on the old cardboard records.
they were never meant to last.

Celluloid film just is unstable as it ages. It is also highly flammable.

I would have thought that some one would have raised to topic of
saving the archives for the future listeners.



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