Take a look at what you can hear next as our events programme and
free exhibition celebrating the Library's sound archive
continue.
Shirley Collins: Words and Music
Saturday 20 January 19.00 – 21.00
One of the key voices of
British folk music discusses and performs her music, and reads from her new
autobiography All in the Downs. Come early for a screening of the new
documentary The Ballad of Shirley
Collins.
Listen: 140 Years of Recorded Sound
Free
exhibition
Until Sunday 13 May
Sound. Take the time to explore it. How
important have the sounds of the past 140 years been to our lives? Dive into the
British Library sound archive and explore the significance of sound since the
phonograph was invented in 1877.
Interested in helping to preserve the nation’s heritage? Donate to
Save Our Sounds, a programme to digitise our sound archive and store the
sounds safely so that they can be accessed forever.