early historian of radio broadcasting that what i was doing was a kind of archaeology as much as a history, because there was no record of the output of the bbc at all in the 1920's because they did not have the recording equipment to, as they used to say in those days, to bottle programs. and so, i found myself, for instance, reconstructing the origins of radio news without ever knowing what, in fact, a single news broadcast sounded like. the first recording, to the best of my knowledge, in the bbc sound archives of a full radio infamous is from the september 1938, when neville chamberlain, the british prime minister, came back with a scrap of paper promising peace having negotiated a wholly bogus, as he thought, deal with hitler in munich. the question of technologies of recording is one that is deeply fascinating, and i know that iny of you are interested and knowledgeable of the history of sound recording. i obviously do not want to begin to get into that here. i do want to make one fundamental observation about the recording device, all recording devices. the key thing that i want to say oppositeed is not the of live. [laughter] my time is up, or my number i