# The British Library Archival Sound Recordings.

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**Created:** [September 7, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-library-archival-sound-recordings/509139 "2009-09-07T03:38:22Z")\
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My wife just sent me the [link](http://sounds.bl.uk/) to the British Library Archival Sound Recordings. Just when it was looking like I might get some actual work done on a computer. The Archive features -  
Accents and dialects.  
Arts, literature and performance.  
Classical music.  
Environment and nature.  
Jazz and popular music.  
Oral history.  
Sound recording history.  
World and traditional music.

I’ll be in my bunk. For a while.