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TitleLondon
Artist(s):Various
Category:BBC - Sound effects-SFX (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Sound effects-SFX CDs.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC SFX.jpg labelBBC SFX - BBCCD SFX051
Format:Disc CDs
Country:UK UK flag
Released:1997
Genre:Sound effects View all other tracks listed as Sound effects.
Run-off codes:A0393 ECD 51 : MASTERED BY NIMBUS
Item deleted?Yes
Distributed / printed byBBC Worldwide Ltd
Page views:1351 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 6175, rank in cds is 431.
My rating:*****
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DetailValue
Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code$
Number have1
What type of seller was usedNot recorded
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Tracks

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Side & track noTrack and ArtistLength
LONDON
A1 British Library, reading room - Passing footsteps and voices - book trolley passes at 5'50"6.08
A2British Museum, entrace hall - Large crowded entrance hall with footsteps, chatter and distant telephones5.34
A3British Museum, Elgin Marbles Hall - Quiet atmosphere of footsteps and voices in large echoey hall5.03
A4Covent garden (interior) - Busy market hall atmosphere with footsteps and voices4.18
A5Covent garden (exterior) - Crowds in Covent Garden Piazza on a busy Saturday afternoon - busker's music occasionally discernable in distance4.08
A6Oxford Circus - Close perspective international crowds passing with heavy traffic background4.56
A7City Side Street - Atmosphere in West End side street with passing cars, taxis, motorbikes and pedestrians - occasional quiet periods5.08
A8Westminster Bridge - Heavy passing traffic and occasional voices and footsteps - river boat hoots at 3'14"4.09
A9Trafalgar Square - Mid-distant group of children feeding pigeons and seagulls - heavy traffic background4.08
A10St James's Park - Spring afternoon lakeside activity with waterfowl, footsteps and voices - distant traffic4.55
A11Hyde Park - Spring afternoon atmosphere in park with birds and distant heavy traffic4.41
A12Middleton Square, Islington - Quiet spring morning atmosphere in residential garden square - with birds, distant traffic and occasional close passing car4.09
LONDON CITY AIRPORT
A13 Dash 7 aircraft (De Havilland, Canada, 2 turboprops - short take off and landing) Airport apron atmosphere as Dash 7 lands, taxis up and halts - engines switch off (2'53") - turbine generator switched off (3'52) - sounds of activity as baggage is unloaded and passengers disembark6.22
A14Dash 7 aircraft - Airport apron atmosphere as Dash 7 aircraft engines start up - aircraft taxis to end of runway (2'36") and takes off5.42
A15City airport - Atmospheres on concourse in arrivals / departures terminal building - without P.A. announcements3.40
Total length of media 1:13:01.

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Front cover of BBCCD SFX051
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Back cover of BBCCD SFX051
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Further information

These are a series of BBC CD albums which basically digitised the original BBC sound effects albums found in the main BBC cagalogue.

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