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#207 - Bean Bag Beds, Intensely Salford and Weekday Weddings

Elis James and John Robins

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Are Libraries a Good Place to Collect Material?

The British Library has been collecting legal deposits since 1610. Some of the things that people find really important now probably might have been thrown away 200 years ago by everybody else apart from us. The amount of material is huge, in the British Library there's about 170 million items. And it's growing by 8 kilometers a year.

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