I mean that was 1978 when the policy of junking was still active and the BBC were more actively dickish in their bureaucracy. These days because that policy has been so roundly condemned as being short sighted and destructive to their own legacy I doubt they’d be so bullish.

Now I’d expect them to be more actively dickish in their attempt to get ‘marketable product’ or whatever the jargon is however. And if I was a collector I’d know that I was in a very grey area legally so I’d still be extremely cautious.

I can’t say I’m completely sympathetic to the collectors either though, in that they know they’re sitting on something literally millions of people would love to see and they don’t want to share it just because it’s theirs.