BBC Transcription VERY RARE Promotional LP The BBC Transcription Service offers

	£		25
	$		33

BBC Transcription Promotional LP "The BBC Transcription Service offers you"

A record sent to radio stations abroad to promote the Transcription Service with samples from its drama, Archive and 'serious' music catalogue.  The slick shiny cover quite different to the cheap cardboard covers the programmes were actually shipped in.  Not to be broadcast - this LP was meant to be listened to by the programme planners and then discarded.  The BBC also produced a similar promotional record for comedy, panel games and light music hosted by Robert Beaty. And another to promote their stereo recordings.

Side 1 (29' 50") Drama  Narrated by Michael Horden
Some of the extracts include the play Coriolanus from World Theatre and - -
Voices of Lord Russel, Karl Jung, Benjamin Britten, Thomas Beecham, Alfred Hitchcock, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas,  Emlyn Williams,
Music for 'Diary of A Madman'   Conrad's 'Art of Darkness' Nightmare escape from prison with the Radiophonic Workshop. Features including  Kaiser Wilhelm,  Hitler, Gandhi's death,  Felix Elner  (Doctor Bowdler) on Trial of Shakespeare. Living Shakespeare with John Guilgud, Aristotle Comedy (World Theatre),  The First Stage (pre-Shakespeare)

Side 2  (28' 35")
Edinburgh Festival Maria Callas (2' 15")  Handle bicentenary - Royal Fireworks,  Purcell - Dido Opera conducted by Britten Aldeborough - Julian Bream, Pears   Britten - Noys Fludde (?) (for those in peril on the sea). Prince of The Pagodas at the Royal Opera House,  Songs for Harp and voice from Ireland,  Music from Scotland, English Street Cry,  Welsh Choir,  Valarie Trimble opera based on The Blind Beggar, Jacques Bebert(?) - Bacchanal, The Proms, Symphony No 8 Mahler

See the Photo's for condition of the sleeve which has survived its 62 years quite well

(Practically all the surface noise are on the right channel as it is a mono record a much quieter experience can be achieved by muting this channel)
These LP's were sent to radio stations all over the world. For a fee they would be able to broadcast the programmes on the LP a number of times over a period of about 3 years denoted by the expiry date. The LP was then supposed to be destroyed or returned to the BBC in London. A number of studio / station managers or DJ's must have decided the LP's were too good to throw away!  The BBC Transcription Service boast that they supply upwards of 200 Radio stations so the print run of these LP's is probably in that order. As many Radio Stations dutifully did as the BBC asked few of these LP's survived.
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