Wasn't it Verbatim also who started selling normal looking Blu-ray recordables but stamping them "M-Disc"? M-Disc is supposed to be glassy carbon and have that huge archival time. Honestly, Verbatim is looking like a scumbag company nowaydays after being sold and bought.
Physical media is sadly dying. It's stupid, there's no good alternatives for some applications. Very annoying.
It's insane that BBC just threw out material. Talk about some short-sighted bullshit.
But of course there are immense amounts of material just rotting away out there, I'm sure.