The Clitheroe Kid : WAV Collection : Series 14 to 16

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The Clitheroe Kid Starring Lancashire comedian Jimmy Clitheroe , this is a British radio comedy series which began in April 1956. Set in the North of England. Jimmy Clitheroe, born in 1921, was an English variety artist who began his career on the music-halls. In his act, he always played a schoolboy -- on the stage, on tv, and on radio. A collection of recordings from Series 14 to 16, in Broadcast Quality. Mostly with lossless compression as .ape files (Monkeys Audio format). Click on the link labelled Show All to access all of the recordings (some of the file formats used can't be played on this page, but must be downloaded to your computer or device to play). Note :  The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under the UK's Copyright Acts 1956 and 1988 has expired for all items included in this collection: · Copyright Act 1956, section 14(2):   https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/14/enacted · Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 14(2):   https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14 Monkey's Audio Some of these files are in .ape format ( Monkey's Audio ), which is a .wav file with lossless compression. You can optionally extract the original .wav file, but an .ape file is usually half the size of an uncompressed .wav file. Using the .ape format was not my choice, it was imposed on me; but it has big advantages over the .flac format (which, ideally, I would have prefered to use): 1.  Firstly, an .ape file is smaller than a .flac file, so is quicker to upload and to download, and takes up less disk space on both my machine and your machine. 2.  Secondly, the Internet Archive would require double the amount of disk storage to house this collection if I had used .flac files, because the Archive automatically derives other formats (mp3, ogg, etc) from .flac files, but not from .ape files. Using .flac typically doubles the total file size for each episode. 3.  Thirdly, an .ape file only has a single entry per episode on the download page (whereas .flac files have at least five entries for each episode). So the download page (the 'show all' page) is less cluttered, making it much easier to read, and to use, when .ape files are employed. Audio recordings in .ape format (lossless .wav) will play on your computer in many free media player programs, including: VLC Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Media Player Classic - https://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/media_players/media_player_classic.cfm Media Player Classic HC (64-bit) - https://archive.org/details/mpc-hc.-1.7.13.x-64 Or you can play these files without downloading them. All the files will play in VLC Media Player :    1. Get the stream address (of an mp3 or ape file) from this page -          https://archive.org/download/theclitheroekid_2021    2. Start VLC Media Player , then press Ctrl plus N to open the Network url box.    3. Copy-and-paste the stream address into the Network url box, then click Play . Apple Mac note There's a free online converter for the Apple Mac, which will unzip an .ape file and can restore the original .wav. Many of the free programs will not unzip files larger than 50MB, but this one will:   https://www.freeconvert.com/ape-to-flac I would be grateful if Ian (known as TheBakerliteLine , a.k.a. Probiang ) would contact me, by posting a Review on this page, below. Ian, you were involved in the 2008 search for missing episodes, conducted in local newspapers all across the UK, and I need your help in connection with some of the recordings found, please. Technical Note - These recordings of Series 14 to 16 (1970-72) are sourced from the transmission master tapes which were preserved privately by the show's producer, James Casey. This was his way of preserving his show, which, in 1970, he became aware was not being retained by the BBC Sound Archive in London. Because they are the master recordings, Mr Casey usually kept - on the end of the tapes - any dialogue which he had had to remove from the episode because it was over-running its allotted 30 minutes. I have presented here the actual recordings transfered from the master tapes: if you play one of these audio files, you'll hear an exact copy of the tape it came from, so if you continue playing it after the playout music ends, you'll hear the sections of dialogue that got edited out of the broadcast, which the radio listeners never heard. There are some recordings available online in which the original wav files have been re-edited, to put the cut dialogue back into the episode. I have not included any of those re-edits here. What you hear here is what the radio audience actually heard in the 1970s, followed by the extra bits spliced on the end of the tape that no one has ever heard before. You might come across other versions of these episodes, elsewhere. Those re-edits will have a longer duration than 30 minutes (excluding the playout music, Baby Jumbo ). The original scripts have, in most cases, been used as a guide to re-inserting the extra dialogue. Thus those recordings are entirely authentic, but are not what the radio audience heard back in the day. So I've not included them here.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.