Podcasts BAL disappear from BBC Sounds

[Barbirollians]

The Record Review podcasts have been heavily pruned - they now only go back to 2017 and those from 2012 onwards have disappeared .

[AuntDaisy]

The Record Review podcasts have been heavily pruned - they now only go back to 2017 and those from 2012 onwards have disappeared .

The joys of the BBC website & disappearing / moving content.

Clips & Podcasts! This link seems to go back a little further, to 2015; and I think this CD Review link goes back to 2012 (Haydn's "The Creation" is 2012, just).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrtty/episodes/downloads?page=22

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tmtz/clips?page=10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06w2121/clips?page=5

[Barbirollians]

Glad as I am that one may be able to dig out older record reviews they have disappeared from the podcasts list in BBC Sounds.

[AuntDaisy]

Glad as I am that one may be able to dig out older record reviews they have disappeared from the podcasts list in BBC Sounds.

Apologies Barbirollians, I don't use Sounds.

[LMcD]

The Record Review podcasts have been heavily pruned - they now only go back to 2017 and those from 2012 onwards have disappeared .

I'm wondering how many BBC cutbacks are due to the need to fund the fees paid to the consultants brought in to advise the BBC on how to save money.

[teamsaint]

I'm wondering how many BBC cutbacks are due to the need to fund the fees paid to the consultants brought in to advise the BBC on how to save money.

But it is a serious point. So many organisations seem to focus so much on saving money, that it eventually costs them more.

[LMcD]

But it is a serious point. So many organisations seem to focus so much on saving money, that it eventually costs them more.

I often try to adopt a jocular tone when making a serious point, as recent personal experiences have convinced me of the need for, and efficacy of, levity.

[Darloboy]

This is infuriating. Especially given that anyone who posts historic recordings of the programme to Youtube seems to be forced to take them down. Does anyone know the reason for this?

[Ein Heldenleben]

This is infuriating. Especially given that anyone who posts historic recordings of the programme to Youtube seems to be forced to take them down. Does anyone know the reason for this?

That will definitely be copyright issues. YouTube respond very quickly to takedown requests from the BBC - whether it’s BBC copyright (the links and in-house band performances ) or underlying copyright (the record company , the performing musicians and , depending on date of death , the composer).
As for the pruning of pre 2012 podcasts (#1) that’s more of a mystery. The standard licence for these sorts of things is 5 years or 5 year blocks . But that doesn’t tally with 2024.

I wonder whether there is some wider sensitivity over podcasts? I know there’s a lot of “anti” BBC lobbying been done by the (vast) podcast industry. In some ways I don’t blame them - as soon as any new media market opens up the Beeb tends to go in with both boots and studs up.

[Barbirollians]

No doubt far too cynical of me to think that those old podcasts of scripted BALs just show up the low standards of all too many of the twofers.

[visualnickmos]

As I understand it, for those of us listening from outside the UK, we won't be able to listen to 'live' BBC radio, as it is by way of BBC sounds, or be able to access 'listen again' So "Record Review" will be no more than memories from the past. Does anyone know if I'm right, or indeed, have more knowledge about this impending end?