Lawrence Shove

Lawrence Shove
Born
Lawrence Clive Shove

5 November 1923[1]
British India
Died2 April 1995(1995-04-02) (aged 71)
Dunsford, Exeter, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Sound recordist; Theatre manager
Years active1960s-1980s
Eurasian Bittern
Shove's 1966 recording of a booming Bittern (with other birdsong in the foreground)
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Lawrence Clive Shove (5 November 1923 – 2 April 1995) was a British sound recordist, specialising in field recordings of wildlife.

The "Shove collection of British wildlife" at the National Sound Archive (NSA), part of the British Library comprises 243 reels of his recordings, on magnetic tape.[2] In 1969, Shove was one of the first contributors to the NSA's wildlife collection, and their wildlife recording number 00001 is his 1966 recording of a Eurasian bittern at Hickling Broad, in Norfolk.[2] The NSA acquired his complete collection of wildlife recordings in the mid-1990s.[2]

In 1968, he was described by the BBC as "the only full-time freelance recordist of wildlife sounds in Britain".[3] He was the subject of a BBC television The World About Us episode, screened on 9 April 1972,[4] and appeared on several other BBC television and radio programmes in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[5]

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was manager of the Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall.

The NSA have put most of Shove's recordings online, and as of November 2013 will extend access as part of a Europeana project.[6]

  1. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  2. ^ a b c "Acquisitions 1995-6" (PDF). Wildlife Section Newsletter (1). tional Sound Archive/ British Library: 2. August 1997.
  3. ^ "LOOK". BBC Online. 23 May 1968. p. 19. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  4. ^ "The World About Us". Radio Times. 6 April 1972. p. 23. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Lawrence+Shove"&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search "Search Results - Lawrence Shove". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  6. ^ Tipp, Cheryl (2013-11-01). "Europeana Creative: the wildlife recordings of Lawrence Shove". Sound and vision blog. National Sound Archive/ British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2013.