Archive of world's rarest sounds faces danger of silence

Al Jazeera English 2015-07-22

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The British Library has a treasure trove of sound recordings including the voices of famous writers, lost accents and the songs of extinct bird species. But it all needs to be preserved digitally.

Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from London.
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