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Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC (www.theguardian.com)
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As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

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[–] AA5B 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article also says these tend to be people who lived it. You see that 1978 thing as an historical anomaly, but they lived it. These were people who were repeatedly threatened to lose their jobs and be arrested for salvaging such things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's a very fair point