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The BRBS Scrapbook

If you have lots of bits of paper of different shapes and sizes, how do you organise them to create some sort of story? The answer here was a scrapbook, where items were glued in with a slightly random structure yet overall there was a theme. The first half starts with the literal transcript of the story that was recorded in 1979, and then traces a chronological route through the years where material is available. The second half is a mishmash of requests and reception reports received by the station, and concludes with the perspective looking back from 2024.

You can read the Scrapbook now. This is the reduced resolution version, rather than the very large full resolution version. To appreciate the book as intended, use the pdf screen tools if available to set the "even spreads" mode, so that inner pages open as a double page spread.

There are two options of pdf file that you can choose to download:

On printing, set the printer to flip by the short edge. When folded this gives an A4 size booklet with A3 paper. You can of course use A4 paper to give an A5 folded outcome, but the bigger format gives a more readable result. It looks by far the best when printed in colour. It's easy to get this wrong, so try printing just one sheet of paper to begin with. A final stage is to staple the pages together in the centre using a long-arm stapler, and then trim the margins using a paper guillotine to give flush paper edges and to remove any white printer margins.

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