Just a few words to say how much I enjoyed hearing about the founder of the national sound archive Patrick Saul on BBC radio 4 this week...Julian LLoyd weber narrated the fascinating story of this manic collector who pioneered the idea of preserving recorded materials here in the UK at a time when others thought him crazy...
I have been playing around with tape recorders since about 1967 when I was just 7 years old when my dad bought me a reel to reel tape recorder from Gamages department store in Holborn central London....I'm still doing it now....

I myself am rather a walking recording machine when I see or hear something as a thing oif beauty I just have to photograph it,video or sound record it...I just cant help myself ha ha.

So hearing of the strange and sometime anarchic storage techniques of the British libraries grandaddy of recording is an Inspiration to me..

Regards.

Jim Clark
Video sound a photographic archivist and producer London.England
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