Stuart Hughes reports for BBC News on the release of new Thomas Edison wax cylinders

Feb 01, 2012, 03:31 PM

The first ever recording to capture the voice of the German statesman Otto von Bismarck has been released to the public - more than 110 years after it was made. It's among a series of recordings made at the end of the 19th century using Thomas Edison's newly invented phonograph, which have only just been digitally restored. Stuart Hughes has been listening to them: