Tuesday 10 January 2012

Digging Up Your Roots series 7

BBC Radio Scotland's Digging Up Your Roots radio series returned for a seventh run on Sunday 8th January. The support site, located at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0195b7j, does not seem to be carrying the episodes as downloadable podcasts this time around.

The first of the series' eight episodes is still available to hear on the BBC iPlayer for the next five days (access directly via the series website), with episode 2 to be broadcast next Sunday 15th at 12.05pm.

UPDATE: Although not noted on the BBC site, the new series is available to download as podcasts via iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes/). (With thanks to Kirsty Wilkinson)

Chris

8 comments:

  1. It has arrived to me as a podcast via iTunes, as usual.

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  2. Yes, same for me. If you've subscribed to a previous series through iTunes then the new episodes will automatically be downloaded. I can't find it at www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts but maybe they haven't got round to uploading it there yet.

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  3. Just checked, and new series is available through iTunes, so will amend post.

    Listened to first half ep 1 last night (rest tonight!). Think BD's wrong about Glasgow Herald though - always believed oldest continuously published English language newspaper in world was Belfast Newsletter, 1737 - could be wrong though! And not sure if the Gazettes qualify - if so, add a century to that!

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  4. As a Worcestershire girl, I was always led to believe that 'Berrow's Worcester Journal' had that claim to fame, although evidence may be lacking...

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  5. I think the definitions need to be clarified!

    Berrow's Worcester Journal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berrow's_Worcester_Journal

    Belfast Newsletter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_News_Letter

    Both quite old then! lol

    I wonder if Belfast's claim literally focusses on the "Daily" bit, from 1855?

    Chris

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  6. Well both pre-date The Glasgow Herald by several decades (if Wikipedia is to be believed!)

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  7. I was interested in the newspaper feature too - I was pleased to hear NEWSPLAN mentioned - but I was very surprised that there was no mention of the many Scottish newspapers that are now online. Fair enough, I wouldn't expect the NLS to draw attention to the British Newspaper Archive, the 19th Century Newspapers site, or the Scotsman Digital Archive, but I thought Bruce might have mentioned them. It was good to hear His Bruceness on the airwaves again, though.

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