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Hancock's Half Hour (Radio) [AI Cleaned] [Complete] + Extras
- Heard
- 1954–1971
- Episodes
- 93
- Language
- English
UPDATED 19 SEPT 2025 - Added TV remakes + 1971 documentary.
More about it
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Amateur restoration to remove constant noise signals and modest equalisation with the aim of providing "more listenable" output.
Tools include -
* Audacity - https://github.com/audacity/audacity
* OpenVINO AI plug-ins - https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/releases
Uploaded at 192kbs MP3 due to upload bandwidth limitations.
Edition nomenclature
[Off-Air Copy] is a catch all for less than original broadcast quality. The vast majority are recordings that originate from the time of broadcast on either open reel tape or cassette. I also use this category as a general stamp for low quality recordings, in the hope of replacing them at a future date with a better quality version.
[TS Edit] is catch all label applied to a high quality but not complete broadcast duration. The vast majority of these originate from edited Transcription Service recordings of various duration. I've come to realise that the duration of these vary over time between 28 minutes in the late 50's to 25 minutes from the 70's. Additional to this the World Service made their own edited recordings and I have applied this label to any recordings which appear to derive from those.
[TS OA Hybrid] is a composite comprising elements from a high quality edited recording supplemented with elements from an off-air recording.
[Broadcast] is a high quality, long duration recording that is probably…
Episodes, in broadcast order
Where it comes from 1
The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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Hancock's Half Hour (Radio) [AI Cleaned] [Complete] + Extras
Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.
Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.
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