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Dear all A big thank you for all the suggestions I received on recording oral histories from the old planetarium employee. A really brilliant response - and a very big thank you to the staff at Hartlepool Museum who have offered to follow up on this, which is just fantastic and far more than I expected! I have passed on details to my friend, who the initial query came from, and hopefully some great memories of planetaria past can be recorded! Many thanks again to everyone who responded, Rosie On 9 October 2012 21:22, Rosie Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all, > > An old friend who works in a planetarium sent me the following message > recently and I thought GEM might be able to make some suggestions. > > "In the British Association of Planetaria, we have an member who tells > stories of the old days and his experiences in a mobile dome (and > other stuff too) in excellent up-north monologue style. He's great. > Very funny and listenable. > > At our conference, I entreated him to make podcasts as I'd love to > listen to him rambling on while driving on long motorway journeys, and > it'd also be great just to record all this for posterity. > > However, this is proving difficult as his computer is too slow and > keeps glitching, plus the sound quality is too poor. To complicate > matters, he is near-blind so it's difficult for him to learn new > software etc. > > I was wondering whether you knew of any organisations that might be > interested in recording him? He is based in Hartlepool. Is this > something that would be worth me following up? Or is there just no > funding for such non-specifics and therefore unlikely to be anyone up > for this?" > > Has anyone got any suggestions for places who would be interested in > recording the memories of an old museum/planetarium worker? Sounds > fascinating stuff, are memories of museum work recorded? > > Any thoughts very welcome. Many thanks, > > Rosie Barker > Community Development Officer, Aston Hall + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +