Trans Atlantic 78s’ is a podcast which looks at the impact of the recording industry on music in West Africa up to the 1960s. Taking you back in time we will delve into the heart of the British Library Sound Archives, and attempt to reveal a sequence of events, which would collectively have a profound and irreversible impact upon the course, and character of music throughout the African continent. You will hear from special guests, historian John Cowley, the late Adesose Wallace, a respected musician who lived and worked in Ghana, Sierra Leon, Liberia and Nigeria until he moved to the U.K in the 70s, and the curator of World & Traditional music at the British museum Janet Topp. The podcast also includes excerpts from Ernest Bourneman, a music critic who wrote for the Melody Maker in the 1950s.