Recordings
During the 1970s and 1980s, many debates were recorded on audio tape. These tapes have been subsequently transferred to the National Sound Archive for safekeeping. As of Michaelmas 2006, the practice of recording debates and speaker meetings has resumed.
On 9 May 2011, the Union launched its online public video service CUS-Connect, with recordings of past events and interviews with speakers uploaded for free viewing. The first ever Union debate live-streamed from the Chamber was held on the 12th May 2011, in which Stephen Fry debated Radio 1 DJ Kissy Sell Out on the motion "This House believes that classical music is irrelevant to today's youth".
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“All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history. If any.”
—Barré Lyndon (1896–1972)