British Library world and folk sound archive goes online (free)

[David Underdown]

See Guardian report, BL's press release and the recordings themselves are avaialble from here.

[autoharp]

Many thanks for that, David! I'll spend time exploring that.

I've noticed that with Safari, things tend to cut out . . .

[IRF]

for example:

•A sing-along of 'It's a long way to Tipperary' medley in the Boldon Lad public house in Newcastle accompanied on banjo and spoons (1979).

Bah. The Boldon Lad is in South Tyneside. I'm not very impressed with the British Library's accuracy 

[Dryphtwood]

Baaa. Thank ewe for this link.