"...there would have been no 'masters', as the programmes would have been digitally 'logged' for a week until overwritten by the next broadcast. That has been BBC policy for quite some time,..."

Shock, horror, so there's no copies kept for the archives!! And I guess the same goes for Mike Harding's folk programme, Folkscene, Travelling Folk, Folk Club, et al.

Incidently these can all be downloaded automatically as series of progs. using RadioDownloader.

Its good that you are at least trying to preserve the programme you're involved with.

But the point is shouldn't the BBC be archiving these programmes, bearing in mind that storage media is cheap.

I hate to think of this attitude of total disregard towards archiving for future generations permeating the entire BBC (and others) output of t.v. and radio.

What on earth is getting lost now-a-days? And its not just episodes of Dr.Who.