[Corpora-List] audio recordings of doctor-patient consultations

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Harold,
Painful story of the audio material from the BNC is that it is gathering
dust in a set of boxes in the basement of the British Library.  The labeling
of the tapes bears an extremely circuitous relation to any other
documentation of the BNC that you are likely to be able to find, so there is
little point in requesting the tapes relating to, eg, BNC file KS3.
Confidentiality considerations make it unlikely that they will ever be made
usefully accessible. (I looked into it a few years ago.) 

Adam

-----Original Message-----

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Harold Somers wrote:

> Does anyone know where I might get hold of audio recordings of
doctor-patient dialogues. There are a few in the BNC, though I'd be
surprised if they have kept the original tapes (I have asked them ...
waiting for a reply). Can anyone suggest any other avenues?
>