Caving Audio Archives

[langcliffe]

Somewhere I have a cassette recording of Mike Boon that was the basis for the interview published in a 1993 edition of The Canadian Caver.

Sounds good. Would there be a copyright issue? If not, could you send it to the BCRA library? They will forward it onto to Sid.

The Librarian
British Caving Library
The Studio
Glutton Bridge
Buxton
SK17 0EN

[ian mckenzie]

No copyright issue, but I'd like to check with Mike first before I send it off.

[langcliffe]

We need some photographs of Bob Leakey to illustrate his interviews. These are by far the most popular recordings on the database,  and it seems a shame not to have pictures of the great man.

If anybody has any photographs they could let us use, please PM me.

[mrodoc]

I have a rather nice photo of Bob Leakey chatting to Graham Balcombe taken at the CDG 50th if that's any good. Also I have edited part of a 90 minute chat with the late Willie Stanton and it is ready to be put on line but I cannot find an email address to send it. I took the tape put it into a sound processing prog and made an MP3 file which is about 7 meg in size. Who would like it for the audio archive. - length about 9 minutes max. There will be more when I have time to do the work.

[langcliffe]

Thanks, mdroc - PM sent.

[langcliffe]

There have been a number of recordings added to the Audio Archives in the last couple of days. Of particular note is a very poignant one donated by Peter Glanvill of Willie Stanton recorded last November where Willie talks about the exploration of the Black Hole Series in Swildon's Hole some 60 years ago, and also a superb account by Jim Newton of an expedition to the Himalayas in 1970 which travelled across land by a double-decker bus.

http://caving-library.org.uk/audio/mostrecent.php

Enjoy.

[langcliffe]

There have been a number of recordings added to the Audio Archives in the last couple of days. Of particular note is a very poignant one donated by Peter Glanvill of Willie Stanton recorded last November where Willie talks about the exploration of the Black Hole Series in Swildon's Hole some 60 years ago

Has anyone got a picture of Willie Stanton we can use for the audio archives? It really doesn't matter whether it's a recent one or one taken in his more active days, although it would be nice to know the year that it was taken.

[damian]

Has anyone got a picture of Willie Stanton we can use for the audio archives?

I assume you know about the pics in the current Descent.

[langcliffe]

I assume you know about the pics in the current Descent.

Yes - thank you. It was that which reminded me. If necessary I will approach Chris directly (he has helped out before).

[hydrophobia]

Hi there. Here's one which may be missing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/index_20041009.shtml

[Gerbil007]

I'm currently enduring a 4 month period of government imposed exile in one of the Middle East's sandy ashtrays and have found this archive invaluable for keeping the fire burning. A truly excellent resource. 

[langcliffe]

Two recordings have been added to the BCA Audio Archives recently - both being interviews with John Frankland, the CRO doctor. A fine photograph  has been added to of Willie Stanton's  interview page - courtesy of the Wessex.

An RSS feed link has also been added to the Audio Archives. This allows the last ten recordings to be automatically bookmarked in a browser, so you can easily see if there is anything new.