These days we are inclined to think that we can recover almost anything in the realms of books, records (discs), film and television. All it takes is a bit of perseverance and imagination.
Not so. For many years, the BBC deleted a large proportion of its output with the result that such masterpieces as the 1956 production of David Copperfield are now lost without trace. At least I thought it was a masterpiece at the age of 12, and I would have appreciated the chance to see how well or badly it had worn down the years. To this very day, I am haunted by the portrayals of James Steerforth (surely one of the most compelling characters created by Dickens) and Uriah Heep. Nothing that I have seen since comes close to my memory of that serial in black and white.
And then there was the haunting theme music which I eventually identified as the second movement of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony.
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