T&PES
of All India Radio functions in four units:
1.
Sound Archives
2.
Transcription
Unit
3.
Internal &
Foreign Programme Exchange Unit
4.
Archival Release
& Marketing
1.
SOUND ARCHIVES
The Sound Archives of All India Radio is a treasure
house of precious recordings of more than 15000 hours of duration containing
music and spoken word recordings in different categories. It is the largest
library of Indian Music recordings and it possesses more than 12000 tapes
of Hindustani, Carnatic, Regional and
Folk music .
The library preserves a separate collection of Mahatma
Gandhi’s post prayer speeches. Speeches of the Presidents and Prime Ministers
of India are also preserved in the AIR Archives.
In addition to this, voice recordings of eminent
personalities like Rabindranath Tagore, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, Sardar Patel,
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan, Sarojini Naidu, Jai Prakash
Narain, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Mother Teresa; Dr.C.V.Raman Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose etc. have also been preserved.
The library preserves a number of Radio Autobiographies
of eminent persons from different fields like Science, Sports, Literature
& Music etc. There are 125 Radio Autobiographies of various
men of eminence.
The AIR Archives has been converted
into the digital format.
- The Transcription
Unit
The Transcription Unit deals
with transcribing the speeches of President and Prime Minister and other
V.I.P’s. The speeches available
on tapes are dubbed on C.D. format for
safekeeping.
3. Programme Exchange Unit (Inland and External)
The Programme
Exchange Unit of Transcription & Programme Exchange Service sends
recordings of various programmes to all the stations for utilization.
The Foreign Programme unit of the T&PES is responsible for the receipt
and circulation of the Radio programmes from the foreign countries.
4.Archival
Releases and Marketing:
In addition
to the intention of preserving the rich audio heritage for posterity,
Prasar Bharati has also worked on the commercially viable aspects of the
Archives. CDs and cassettes of music recordings of legendary musicians
like Pt. Omkarnath Thakur, Pt.D.V.Paluskar, Sidheshwari Devi, Semmangudi
Srinivasa Iyer, Musiri Subrahmania Iyer, Dwaram Venkatswamy
Naidu,Pannalal Ghose,M.D.Ramanathan,Ustad Aziz Ahmed Khan Warsi etc. have been released after proper refurbishing
and pre-mastering by the Refurbishing unit in TPES. These releases under the banner ‘Akashvani
Sangeet’ had already generated an impact amongst music lovers.
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