"These recordings are really precious records of those great actors, of those important productions of post-war Shakespeare in Britain," Mr Wyver continued.
Indeed these precious records are the ultimate time machine.
There are many reasons to digitize one's precious records and store them on a PC: to preserve them from aging, to make multiple copies that can be kept in separate places, and to create multimedia slide shows, perhaps to show future generations.
Shortly afterwards, the buyer – calling himself "lilcakey" – put his precious record up for sale at Discogs, asking $5,000 (£3,226).
"Nowadays you can be far more experimental because your work isn't being ploughed into this one precious record that's got to sell a certain amount.
The project, for which the camera-laden car was plying the streets of Kesennuma last week, aims to provide the disaster zone with a precious record of the damage, and to track the progress of reconstruction.
For Gough, this "classic album" tour is to be celebrated; not just because it resurrects the beauty of this quiet, precious record, but because it embraces the creation that once loomed across his career like an albatross.
It was probably brown to everybody else, but to me it was gold.' A woman who looks at the mundane in life and sees something precious, recording it for the rest of us to share.
Years before, I had seen a tape of a 1960 performance on Canadian television — a precious record, because it featured the original cast, Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams, in the pas de deux — but when I asked people I knew if they had the tape they all looked flustered and said no.
For the past two decades, technicians have been labouring to restore this precious record of Scott's expedition and the result of their endeavours will be revealed in a newly restored print that will be screened in London for the first time next month with a live musical score by Simon Fisher Turner.
There's a precious recording of the composer impishly discussing these pieces: in a dry, professorial tone, he says that he chose the word "nigger" because it represents "a basicness, a fundamentalness, and eschews that thing which is superficial or — what can we say?
