Hoot,

I'm sure I will be corrected if wrong but I think Peter Kennedy provided much of the "As I Roved out" material. His recordings have passed via the National Sound Archive to Topic and Musical Traditions. Topic are working on a Voice Of The People#2 series and Musical traditions will incorporate the material into their future projects of excellent source singer CDs.

I know the BBC have been stunningly negligent in the past at archiving and saving some of this precious material but my understanding is that they have improved, albeit from a very low base..

If anyone has recordings of these early series they should consider making them more available to everyone never fortunate enough to have seen or heard them when first broadcast; either by donating them to Sound Archives or by digitising and disseminating them...

Isn't that exactly what Pete Seeger has spent most of his life doing?

Andy