OT: why were BBC archives deleted or destroyed?

[Colin Law]

On 4 August 2016 at 14:06, artisticforge . <artisticforge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Incompetence and cock-up mostly I imagine.

Colin

> 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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