The first radio documentary I heard Ray Gosling do was a series about
an overland trip, 'on the road to new zealand', it came out in the
late seventies.  I think I was expecting a whispering reverential
right-on Bob Harris commentary, what we got was very different, very
challenging.  Ray has this voice, once you've heard it you never
forget it, a voice as unique as say John Ebden who used to do regular
programmes 'From the BBC Sound Archives'.  You could listen to those
voices reading the telephone book.  Google tells me that Ray Gosling
made over a thousand radio documentaries, he is, I believe our
greatest living broadcaster, not just my view, ask Andy Kershaw. Has
the BBC has preserved all or some of these programmes, how would one
go about finding out which ones are left? Are there inventories
somewhere that we can get hold of?  Are there teams of people
digitising all this stuff and what remit are they working too?  Sorry
if this has been covered before.  While I'm on the subject, Arthur
Lowe and Ian Lavendar in Parsley Sidings another national treasure
that needs bringing back to the surface from which ever dust coated
shelf it has been sitting on these past 35 years.

"richard"  wrote in message 
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> While I'm on the subject, Arthur
> Lowe and Ian Lavendar in Parsley Sidings another national treasure
> that needs bringing back to the surface from which ever dust coated
> shelf it has been sitting on these past 35 years.

Gets the odd airing on BBC 7.