These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.
Notes on downloading:
- Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
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2977 results found
Benny Hill
Benny Hill in The Benny Hill Show
39 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Bill And Ben
Bill and Ben The Flowerpot Men
28 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Billy And Cilla
Billy Cotton and Cilla Black, two of the stars in the show 'Christmas Night With The Stars' featuring the top names of BBC Light Entertainment in 1967.
52 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Billy Cotton
Billy Cotton and The Silhouettes rehearsing a number for 'The Billy Cotton Band Show'
57 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Black & White Minstrel Show
Benny Hill in The Benny Hill Show
54 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter
Blue Peter presenters Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves, John Noakes with four lion cubs. Three of the four lion cubs adopted by Blue Peter have been named after the three presenters, but the fourth was nameless and giving her a name was the holiday task Blue Peter set its young viewers.
10 MB
1960s, tv and radio, video
Blue Peter
Blue Peter presenters Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves, John Noakes with four lion cubs. Three of the four lion cubs adopted by Blue Peter have been named after the three presenters, but the fourth was nameless and giving her a name was the holiday task Blue Peter set its young viewers.
52 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter Crew
Blue Peter presenters Christopher Trace, Valerie Singleton and John Noakes with the Blue Peter animals Petra (dog) Jason (the Siamese cat) and Patch (the Alsatian dog)
58 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Citizen James
Pauline Stroud as Flossie, Sydney Tafler (Charlie) and Sidney James as Citizen James
44 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Civilisation
Kenneth Clark presenting 'Civilisation' from 1969
16 MB
1960s, tv and radio, video
Cliff Morgan
Welsh Sports Parade 1961, presented by BBC Wales Sports organiser, Cliff Morgan
53 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
Come Dancing
The South London Team, performing the opening formation routine and competing competing against North London in the BBC Inter-Regional dancing contest in December 1962.
55 KB
1960s, tv and radio, images
