Another well researched piece of Gramophone history from BBC

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Another well researched piece of Gramophone history from BBC

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Obviously had their A Team working on this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07m1p8z

It could have been really great with a bit of fact checking & attention to detail!



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If a picture says more than thousand words, I'm not sure I want to watch this :o

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My expectations of the dumbed down BBC are now so low that nothing they get wrong surprises me any more.

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The BBC is so obsessed these days with not offending anyone that I'm almost surprised it can make any programmes at all.

Maybe getting their facts right meant potentially offending someone out there so they opted to screw it up on purpose to keep the peace?

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What's this shop Wallis, that seems an old record store? Where is it?
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alang wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 12:27 pm If a picture says more than thousand words, I'm not sure I want to watch this :o
I'm with Andreas...
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"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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