p2pnet.net News:- "The rich Scots brogue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounting how he came to create Sherlock Holmes is one of thousands of sound recordings from the British Library to be made available online to universities and further education colleges in a £1m [about $1,800,940] programme."

So says the Guardian Unlimited in a story here explaining a project to digitise nearly 4,000 hours of recordings from the British Library’s archive.

They’ll include Florence Nightingale speaking in one of the earliest sound recordings, "as well as the genesis of Sherlock Holmes".

The project is part of a larger £10m [about $18,010,938] digitisation programme to put sound, moving pictures, census data and still images online for long-term use, adds the Guardian.

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