The BBC is to introduce a new radio website, codenamed ‘Audiopedia’, to contain virtually its entire archive of speech radio programmes going back to the 1940s. The service is being developed for launch “within the next 12 months”, said Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music. "Audiopedia", its working title, may yet become its formal name, he added.
The website will represent the biggest release of BBC programming on demand since the iPlayer was introduced in 2007. As well as searching and listening to the archive, "Audiopedia" users will be able to share programmes with their friends. The BBC is in the process of digitizing its audio and TV archives. Currently around 20 hours a week of Radio 4 archive is being added to "Audiopedia". Davie the process was being run at a “small cost to the tax payer” and that the website will be “porous” to other broadcasters’ content. He told The Telegraph: “Audiopedia will not be a closed library. We will link to other broadcasters’ content.” The initiative was announced by Mark Thompson, the BBC’s Director General, at the annual Radio Festival in Salford. “The content would be searchable by subject, participant or programme, bringing together thousands of hours of unique information and entertainment to stream and download.”
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