High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marie Slocombe (1912–1995) founded the BBC Sound Archive in 1936. Her keen interest in audio recordings and folk music have made her legacy important in the history of recorded sound. Born in 1912, Slocombe studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she gained a First in French. As a secretary in the Foreign Office she undertook temporary work at the BBC in 1936, and as part of this work was tasked to sort out and dispose of "a pile of dusty broadcast discs". On discovering that these included speeches and readings by contemporary figures such as George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Winston Churchill and others, instead of disposing of them, she realised their historical significance and resolved to keep them.

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