[78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more oddball 78 album]

[Michael Biel]

From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>

> There was a programme about the "War of the Worlds" 1938 broadcast on 
> BBC Radio 4 on Saturday night. They played extracts from the programme. 
> The question is: Was the programme committed to a transcription disc 
> (meaning it didn't go out live), or was this a Boris Rose effort?
> Julian Vein

It went out live -- our networks did not allow the use of recordings
with very few exceptions (by that time, only one.)  Boris Rose would
have had nothing to do with it unless he recorded it off the air. 
Recently we have been discovering several previously unknown sources of
the recordings of the broadcast, and we might now have six independently
recorded versions, including a 1948 dub that dl owns.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com