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.
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Billy Connolly
Scottish comedian Billy Connolly. Michael Parkinson presented a special Bank Holiday edition of his talk show, featuring the comedy of 'Big Yin' Billy Connolly, making a return appearance to the show.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Bing Crosby
Michael Parkinson in conversation with Bing Crosby, from 1975.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Blankety Blank
Terry Wogan with the panel on 'Blankety Blank' in 1979 - Terry Wogan, Windsor Davies, Aimi Macdonald, Henry Cooper, Francoise Pascal, Larry Grayson and Dora Bryan.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter
Valerie Singleton with Jason, the Blue Peter cat, John Noakes holding Shep, the Blue Peter dog, and Peter Purves holding Petra, the Blue Peter dog, in 1971.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter Steam Train
Tom Baker as Dr Who with the Daleks at BBC Television Centre.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Bob Wilson
Bob Wilson, presenter of 'Football Focus' a regular feature on 'Grandstand', from 1976.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Ceefax On Telly
CEEFAX index on a TV screen. Ceefax was a form of BBC broadcasting - a complete service of News and Information, hidden inside the television picture.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston is a guest on the 'Parkinson' show, 12th December 1971.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Cilla Black
Cilla Black, from 1970
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Citizen Smith
Mike Grady as Ken, Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith, Anthony Millan as Tucker and George Sweeney as Speed in the comedy 'Citizen Smith'.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Come Dancing
A group of contestants on 'Come Dancing'.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
Come Dancing Final
Gary Swain and Tina Grainger who dance in the Latin American section for Midlands and West in the 'Come Dancing' final.
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1970s, tv and radio, images
