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:

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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Isle Of Wight Festival 3

    People dancing at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, which took place between 26 - 31 August.

    63 KB

    1970s, music, images

  2. Isleof Wight Festival

    People looking at jewellery at a stall at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, which took place between 26 - 31 August.

    125 KB

    1970s, music, images

  3. Jimmy Cliff

    Jimmy Cliff performing at the BBC in August 1970

    59 KB

    1970s, music, images

  4. John Lennon

    John Lennon on Parkinson, from July 1971.

    38 KB

    1970s, music, images

  5. Millworkers' Song

    A millworkers song sung by a folk quartet in 1970s

    31 MB

    1970s, music, video

  6. Music Time

    Clip from the programme 'Music Time', from 1970s

    3 MB

    1970s, music, video

  7. Nazareth

    Nazareth

    30 KB

    1970s, music, images

  8. Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney, form 1970s

    46 KB

    1970s, music, images

  9. Pentangle

    Pentangle: John Renbourn (sitar), Terry Cox (drums), Jacqui McShee (vocals) and Bert Jansch (banjo).

    50 KB

    1970s, music, images

  10. Queen Band

    Queen backstage at Top of the Pops. Exact date unknown. L-R Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.

    38 KB

    1970s, music, images

  11. Robert Wyatt

    Robert Wyatt, from 1970s

    38 KB

    1970s, music, images

  12. Ronnie Corbett

    Ronnie Corbett performing one of his weekly monologues for The Two Ronnies.

    35 KB

    1970s, music, images