In its Annual Plan for 2021/22, the BBC announced that it would cease to make new content for BBC Four, instead relying on repeats and archive programmes to fill the channel’s schedule. The decision might seem to be a pragmatic response to the corporation’s financial constraints, but will it really lead to the channel becoming ‘the home of the most distinctive content from across the BBC’s archive’ as the broadcaster claims? This article explores the potential risks to cultural memory of recycling archival material on BBC Four with no new content to add to the mix.

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“BBC 档案馆的保管人”：BBC 四台作为档案频道的未来

在其 2021/22 年度计划中，BBC 宣布将停止为 BBC 第四台制作新内容，而是依靠重复和存档节目来填补频道的日程安排。这一决定似乎是对公司财务限制的务实回应，但它真的会导致该频道成为“BBC 档案馆中最独特内容的所在地”吗？本文探讨了在没有新内容可添加的情况下，在 BBC 四台上回收档案材料对文化记忆的潜在风险。