England
BBC to archive millions of hours of contentPosted Jun 20 2007
The BBC's Web site will soon be archiving nearly one million hours of radio and TV content, some of which has never been repeated, and will be available to license-fee payers free of charge. Among the material is an interview with Martin Luther King filmed shortly before he was assassinated, an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in which the former Beatle speaks candidly about the impact their relationship had on the band and a 1956 episode of Zoo Quest with David Attenborough catching the komodo dragon on film for the first time. The BBC's director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield heads the project. A trial involving 20,000 users will begin next month with the possibility of the service being available nationally in a year's time.