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Spring 2018–Winter 2019

Ludwig Koch Recordings

Ludwig Koch

Ludwig Koch’s first recording of a birdsong

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Peter Sellers’s Koch impression

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Ludwig Koch was a pioneering wildlife sound recordist and BBC broadcaster. In 1889, at the age of eight, Koch was responsible for capturing the first sound recording of an animal, the song of a caged Shama thrush. His extensive field recordings led to the creation of the BBC’s Natural History sound archive.

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