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Gone, surely, are the days when the British Parliament was considered secretive and closed. Sound recordings of the House started thirty years ago - John Sargeant recently presented a programme all about this on Radio 4.
Odd then that so much of the online archive is only available either for a fee or if you are on the books of a British university.
If you're outraged by this, you're not alone. Erik Ringmar is a professor in Taiwan who thinks everyone should have free online access to the parliamentary record. Its got people talking.
You can hear Eddie's interview with Erik Ringmar here:
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The firm Proquest were given permission to digitise the parliamentary record. Eddie has been speaking its Publishing Director - Dan Burnstone:
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