The set had thousands of small cardboard boxes and hundreds of pages of sheet music, all lit sublimely.

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At the New York Academy of Music, an exclusive venue for opera from 1854, 18 private boxes were monopolised by an old elite of Roosevelts, Stuyvesants and others.

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Even if we are contributing to this global library through blogging, or podcasting or uploading music, video or Instagramed photos, we are just filling in boxes that others have made for us.

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The radio stations are a black urban music network, two stations based largely on the BBC archives (one music, one speech), the Asian Network, which currently broadcasts locally and via satellite TV boxes, and Five Live Sports Extra, bringing greater choice of sports, when matches clash.

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