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Roly Keating talks about the BBC archives.

The Merseybeat collection of radio interviews and programmes recorded in the 1970s, featuring legends including Billy Fury, Cilla Black and Gerry Marsden, is the latest from the BBC Archives to go online.

Roly Keating, the new director of BBC Archive Content, says it's one of the UK's greatest cultural assets and the plan is to give the public online access to the best of it.

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