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Thankfully, that no longer needs to be the case. For even if archive minded people are not willing to
invest in tiny pocket sized voice recorders and HD quality video cameras, still there is no excuse, as all
the quality recording equipment you could ever want and more can now be found in a typical smart
phone.
So get out there and use the technology. Take lots of pictures; video things of potential historical
interest, and record conversations with interesting people on historical or controversial topics, then as
importantly, archive it.
It doesn't have to be professionally presented. Lord knows, mine isn't. I'm no natural on either audio or
video, as many of my efforts will testify. But it's not the interviewers contribution that matters. It's the
interviewee being encouraged to contribute that is important.
All the audio interviews I have recorded have been properly archived for future researchers to access.
For immediate public access, I have also put them into the podcast folder of my own website Fishing
Films and Facts, which again is a none profit making opportunity for me to put something back into a
pursuit which over the years has given me so much.
But my site unfortunately won't be available forever. The video's it hosts perhaps may well be thanks
to YouTube. But the audio recordings, for the moment at least, have no permanent online home. Instead,
these are housed in the National Sound Archive in London under the collection title C1486 – Phill
Williams Angling Interviews.
The same interviews have also gone to the Angling Trust and to Angling Heritage, the later also holding
copies of everything audio, video and photographic I have ever produced. And it doesn't end there.
Wales and Scotland, though for some reason not Ireland, have sound and vision archives of their own
which I have also fed appropriate material into, in addition to which, most English counties also archive
local historical audio-visual contributions, and they too have received copies of material relevant to
them.
So there is plenty of archive opportunity out there. Not only to record, but to preserve, and I strongly
urge people to do this when suitable opportunities present themselves.
Associated audio interview numbers: 100.
Ph. D RESEARCH
Bucket List status – result
Having been offered the option of
voluntary redundancy as an electrician
working on the truck and bus assembly
line at British Leyland in Lancashire back
in 1985, I was suddenly presented with an
opportunity to go into full time university
education, which was something I
increasingly felt I wanted to do.
Unfortunately, if that happened, having
been a complete waste of space at school,
unlike the usual age group going on from
A-level college to university, in my case
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