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Originally Posted by dave walsh
I asked him why they were preserving Falklands War material when the Beeb would obviously have it already? He looked at me and said "You think so?"
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The "keep everything" approach only became practical with the advent of mass digital storage - an attempt was made to preserve everything of "Radio Scud" during the first Iraq war, when R4FM was turned into a rolling news service for the duration. This relied on a bank of DAT machines, and was largely successful...except that the war started about ten o'clock at night and the machines weren't running, so the first couple of hours didn't get preserved.
I bought a box of tapes a while ago and found that it seemed to contain wall-to-wall The World Tonight from the Falklands campaign. That's a nice job for a wet weekend...