Research and transcription of British English news broadcast for language recognition (BRITISH ENGLISH)

We have a twofold task to for an internet investigation & a transcription: Task I- Finding collections We need a freely available collection of 3 hours of radio and TV broadcasting news (audio/video) in BRITISCH ENGLISH language. These should be freely downloadable on the internet, include different channels, different speakers. It is important that no other language is in-between or in the background. For the further steps dealing with these collections, i.e. transcription, audio must be extracted as a .wav-File. Task II - Transcription We need a literal transcription of this collection of 3 hours of radio and TV broadcasting news. As a tool for supporting transcription we suggest Transcriber ( <[login to view URL]> ) A short introduction to conventions on how to transcribe as well as an example (in English) will be provided under "Additional Files". Simply open the audio file "[login to view URL]" into Transcriber (s.o.), then the corresponding "[login to view URL]" to get an impression how the result should be alike. [Apart from that an example of a rough automatic transcription of a BBC show can be provided, that might help speeding up transcription (.STM file can be opened the same way as .TRS file). If this is helpful, automatic transcription files can be provided, otherwise a transcription from scratch might be more appropriate. ]