The Derby Tape Recording Club: The Lost Episode
Monday, 7 September⋅10:00 – 11:00am
At 10am Mark Vernon revisits the Derby Tape Recording Club to trace a family of club members who emigrated to Australia in the 1960s.
“This programme is a continuation of sorts of a series I produced for Resonance FM back in the year 2002. Each episode was haphazardly constructed from a ramshackle archive of disintegrating open reel tapes bought from a car boot sale in Derby.
This lost episode of The Derby Tape Recording Club came about when a whole new batch of tape recordings were discovered 10 years ago. Martin Stanway, a former member of the club and son of Alf Stanway, the club chairman sent a selection of these recordings that were featured on local station Radio Derby over the course of a week. When I heard about this I of course got in touch and struck up a correspondence. Martin has since generously shared with me all of the recordings he had digitised along with photographs and other ephemera.
Martin and his family emigrated to Australia in 1969 leaving their friends in the club behind but they still kept in touch through taped messages, some of which are included in this piece.”
