BBC As Prescribed Dudley Savage 1969. While looking and listening or trying to at more old reel-to-reel tapes a few weeks ago I came across another addition of Dudley Savage's "As Prescribed" Sunday Morning Radio show. Dating from the 1st of September 1969 so now 54 years ago and as it went out in early September I thought it was fitting for this video to go out now.
It was on sadly another poor shed stored reel-to-reel tape I have tried a new way to dry the tape out and actually dried this out in a small oven! Yes, I did say oven! Tape for tea? No. This was done on a very low setting just to get the tape to run and come off the spool as this tape does tend to go sticky when poorly stored for many years! However, I did get the programme copied off the tape but sadly the music items that Dudley plays are slightly distorted due to how the tape was recorded all those 54 years ago so my apologies about that when you have recordings like this there is sadly little you can do to improve on the sound and the distortion was done on that original day of recording sadly. However, I feel these are so historic I have still decided to upload the video.
And on a personal note, I love just hearing Dudley Savage reading the request in his wonderful manner and take on things Radio days like this are long gone when I listen to odd bits of the likes of Radio 2 today! And sadly there can be few people left that he mentions in this recording now we are 54 years on. Some things have changed for the better in that time but other things seemed so much simpler and happier back then. Thank you, Dudley.