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BBC Archive Stories: Climate Emergency

15 June 2023

By EAFA Team

Explore exclusive BBC footage digitised as part of the Fast-Forwarding Video Preservation project

 

About the project

In 2022-23, EAFA undertook the Fast-Forwarding Video Preservation and Digital Engagement project. Led by Dr. Tim Snelson of UEA and working in partnership with the BBC, the project sought to preserve and make accessible at-risk parts of EAFA’s collections that are of local, national and international significance.

The project saw approximately 550+ hours of video and film from the BBC and other collections digitised.

The project was kindly funded by the AHRC.

 

Young curators

As part of the project, young people and students were actively engaged in collections-based research and digital engagement. They were trained in video preservation and digitisation, and in cataloguing archive material to international standards. They then helped to select BBC footage for EAFA’s annual Mash-Up Filmmaking Competition, and curated a live event… and this Highlights page!

The following BBC news items have been selected by the participating students, to the theme of ‘Climate Emergency’. They were originally broadcast in the 1990s and would have been inserted into BBC East regional news programmes.

highlights

  • 19th November 1991 Cat no. 760215

    [BBC Look East. Flooding at Luton]

    19th November 1991, Luton (Bedfordshire)

    Scenes of flooding in a town centre.

    Cat no. 760215

    0:00:44

    Colour, Sound

  • 17th February 1992 Cat no. 760216

    [BBC Look East. Peterborough Earthquake]

    17th February 1992, Peterborough (Cambridgeshire)

    A report about an earthquake in Peterborough.

    Cat no. 760216

    0:04:41

    Colour, Sound

  • 6th January 1994 Cat no. 760217

    [BBC Look East. Overstrand Landslip]

    6th January 1994, Overstrand (Norfolk)

    Residents talk about how they are affected by a landslip of the cliff at Overstrand, Norfolk.

    Cat no. 760217

    0:02:37

    Colour, Sound

  • 18th January 1994 Cat no. 760218

    [BBC Look East. Coastal Plans]

    18th January 1994, Trimingham (Norfolk)

    Scenes of coastal erosion in North Norfolk where the District Council has published maps of areas likely to be lost to the sea.

    Cat no. 760218

    Colour, Sound

  • 21st December 1994 Cat no. 759126

    [BBC Look East. A Bus Trial]

    21st December 1994, Suffolk (County)

    A specialist bus ‘super’ route (66) has been arranged by Suffolk Country Council which speeds up journey times.

    Cat no. 759126

    0:00:46

    Colour, Sound

  • 15th December 1994 Cat no. 759123

    [BBC Look East. Water Meters]

    15th December 1994, Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)

    Anglia Water proposed regulations that forces customers to use water meters.

    Cat no. 759123

    0:01:42

    Colour, Sound