BBC historic broadcast was fraud say experts

The many students of the King's choral tradition were therefore delighted, and surprised, when the BBC announced that as part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of their choral evensong programme they were to broadcast on October 25th 2006 "a 1950s archive broadcast from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge."

On An Overgrown Path has rightly praised the BBC for their support of classical music. But they have also been criticised here for their sheer arrogance with the Beethoven MP3 downloads, copyright, Barenboim Ring broadcast (which was also from commercial recordings), Bach Christmas, errors in their Annual Report, lack of female composer representation, and Shostakovich saturation.
The BBC should be ashamed of their deception over the King's evensong broadcast. It is yet another example of their fixation with anniversaries and spin. But what is even worse is that the BBC has a vast archive of historic broadcasts which they are failing to exploit. On an Overgrown Path has already drawn attention to the innovative way in which the Finnish national broadcaster YLE is making archive recordings of contemporary and historic recordings available as internet downloads. The very same year that the historic King's evensong recording was made by Argo, Peter Hanslett, writing in the Cambridge Review, described the BBC's Third Programme as 'a service which is literally the envy of the world.' How times have changed.
Update - now read the BBC's disingenuous justification of their fraud via this link.
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Comments
Greetings from Brian Head - your efforts to bring this fraud to a wider audience are much appreciated. I sang in the Argo recording - made in July-ish 1956 - and Chris Keyte, who read a lesson, and I, both joined the Choir in Sept 1955.
The details you have given in the blog are totally correct, and I have the Columbia lists of their recorded King's anthems etc giving the precise recording dates of the Howells Coll Reg Magnificat (1951 with Garth Benson - organ) , and Wesley - Cast me not away (1952).
Thank you for your crusading efforts.