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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Search Results
2977 results found
Chairmen Of The Board
Chairmen of the board backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1970
57 KB
1970s, music, images
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt, from 1970s
94 KB
1970s, music, images
Beach Fun
People enjoying the good weather at the Beach at Helen's Bay in 1970
2 MB
1970s, leisure, video
Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff performing at the BBC in August 1970
72 KB
1970s, music, images
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1970
63 KB
1970s, music, images
Mungo Jerry
Mungo Jerry backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1970
64 KB
1970s, music, images
Doctor Who Jo Grant
Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Dr Who's new assistant in the first episode of the "Dr Who" adventure, 'Terror of the Autons'. 1970
84 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Canned Heat
Canned Heat backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1970
70 KB
1970s, music, images
Deep Purple
Deep Purple backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1970
54 KB
1970s, music, images
Jimmy Ruffin
Jimmy Ruffin on 'Top of the Pops' 1970
45 KB
1970s, music, images
Yacht
Chay Blyth on his Trans-Atlantic yacht British Steel, 1970
47 KB
1970s, leisure, images
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys backstage at 'Top of the Pops' in 1970.
59 KB
1970s, music, images
