The makers and producers of the popular OnFARM (Food, Agriculture & Rural Matters) podcast, Scene & Herd PR and Marketing, have today launched OnRECORD, a personal recording service, aimed at capturing rural voices for posterity.

OnRECORD helps rural families, communities and organisations to preserve unique voices, stories and memories for the future with professionally captured and expertly edited audio recordings of guided conversations.

When someone speaks, it is their accent, their tone, their inflection and their laugh that makes them unique and which brings them to life. OnRECORD (https://www.onrecordmemories.co.uk/) is able to capture these nuances, as well as stories and memories themselves, to make an entirely original and emotional piece of future history.

Audio recordings now play a crucial role in preserving cultural heritage and traditions as well as family history. Interviews, oral histories, and narratives passed down through generations can be documented, helping to safeguard knowledge and traditions and serve as valuable archive resources for families, researchers and historians, seeking to understand the past from a personal and nuanced perspective.

This week’s episode of the OnFARM podcast officially launches the OnRECORD project with the help of a wonderful man by the name of Willie Logan who has shared memories of his 91 years in Scottish farming. Listen to this podcast at: https://pod.fo/e/2179c9

For their first official project, the OnRECORD team will be joining forces with RHASS and look forward to sharing further information on that project in due course.

As part of the OnRECORD launch, others wishing to record loved ones, retiring employees/office-bearers, long-serving staff or anyone else, can receive a fifteen per cent discount if they book a recording before the end of February.

Anna Davies, Director of Scene & Herd and one of the founders of OnRECORD, said:

“The Scene & Herd and OnFARM teams are so excited to be launching this brand new project.

“Recorded audio memories serve as such powerful tools for personal, familial, and cultural preservation, offering a unique way to capture and relive the richness of life’s experiences. They say that a picture tells a thousand words, but we know for certain that it’s real voices that we cherish and that we miss when people are no longer with us.

“Hearing the voices of loved ones, whether they are family members, friends, or even oneself, can evoke strong emotions and create a powerful sense of connection and comfort as well as enjoyment. For that reason, I think it’s so important that we use the skills we have to create something that has such strong emotional and historical value for our country and its rural people.

“That’s why OnRECORD captures and preserves stories, experiences, thoughts and personal history, creating an enduring record of life and a rich resource for future generations to connect with their family history or organisations to add to their historical archives.

“Every podcast and piece of audio that we create is done from the heart and talking to wonderful people like Willie Logan, as well as others we’ve spoken to over the years such as agri journalist Andrew Arbuckle and RHASS Chairman Bill Gray, to name just a few, is what has inspired us to launch this exciting new project.

“We can’t wait to work with even more people to give them something that has such value and such meaning.”