Dave,

I don't whether you are deliberately trying to get up my nose, but you are damned well succeeding. Indeed, I am fast coming to the conclusion that your contribution to this thread is entirely scurrilous.

My email said nothing about retaining the collection in this country. I merely pointed out that if it is sold abroad it MIGHT run into copyright problems which could rebound on public use in this country.

Dave, do you think I am sufficiently out of touch not to know whether the National Sound Archive has digitised copies ? Do you think I would be stupid enough to make such a statemnt without checking first ?

If you had bothered to check, you would have found that the collection is listed on the NSA's on-line database. Perhaps I could introduce you to a friend of mine. His name is Andrew King. He was paid by the NSA to catalogue the damned things.

Please don't talk drivel about writing grand statements when you are plainly incapabale of reading and understanding what I wrote.