Explore Soundbytes
With Soundbytes, we invite writers and artists to produce small exhibits and short stories responding to the BBC's sound collection and its written archive. Explore a series of curated exhibits based on some of the BBC's images, texts and sounds.
Harmonizing with the Temiar
At the beginning of December, 1941. the Malaya Broadcasting Corporation dispatched its experimental mobile recording unit on its first expedition. This article traces the entangled history of Broadcasting and anthropology.
General Gerald Templer
Extract from address to Malayan villagers after murder of government employee by Communist terrorists. With interpreter.
A Shipping Agent to South East Asia
Mr. George Simpson is interviewed by Mr. Bill Dorward, covering Simpson's work in Singapore, British North Borneo, Penang, Malaya, and Hong Kong.
George Orwell
Though George Orwell is, by far, the most famous presenter to ever work for the Far Eastern Service, his actual speaking voice has never been found in any archive