A LITTLE vinyl record shop in Christchurch is set to feature in a programme broadcast to millions of homes on primetime TV.

The Vault, which is independently owned by husband and wife team, Chrissy Collier and Alan Rowett, was filmed for BBC's The One Show as part of a segment about a recording technique called backmasking.

Presenter, Richard Mainwaring, spoke to expert, Colleen Murphy, about the technique, which involves deliberately recording a sound, tune or message, which can only be heard when the track is played in reverse.

Alan said backmasking was used by The Beatles around 50 years ago on two tracks on their album, Revolver.

He added: "It was used a lot during the 70s and 80s. There was a big court case in America at one point involving heavy metal music using backmasking, which they said contained satanic messages."

Chrissy added that Jeff Lynne from the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) was also accused of using the technique on the album, Eldorado. He was later found to purposefully use the technique on future tracks.

She added: "I think that the TV crew were in the area as they had been to Absolute Music in Wallisdown because they have studios, then I think they came to us to record the factual part of the interviews. Then they were going to record some music at the Bootleg Beatles show at the Pavilion in Bournemouth in the evening.

"It was great for us as they were here for about two hours and used our shop as the background for the piece."

Alan said that the shop is now looking forward to Record Store Day, which is taking place on April 16, and focuses on independent music shops selling special limited edition items which are not available in the larger chain stores.

He said that the annual event has a different ambassador each year which with Metallica heading up the role for 2016 to support independent record shops of which there are only around 250 left in the UK.

"There are also two very unusual items from David Bowie, who obviously sadly died earlier this year, which are being released and I've heard that they might be doing a picture disc for him as well."

Chrissie added that the number of items that a record shop is allowed to have depends on how many vinyl records they stock, which means that The Vault will hopefully get a bigger selection.

"It's the most exciting day of the year for an indie shop. Last year we had people queueing from 10am the night before."