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
  • Downloading audio items will include both the audio files and a ‘poster image’ for each audio item, if available
  • Downloading image items will just include the images
  • All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items

Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Frankie Howerd

    Michael Parkinson interviewing guest Frankie Howerd on his show 'Parkinson', from 1978.

    44 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  2. Fred Astaire And Michael Parkinson

    Fred Astaire and Michael Parkinson, from 1976.

    30 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  3. Gardeners' World

    Percy Thrower, gardening expert, passes on his knowledge in Gardeners World.

    62 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  4. Gene Kelly

    The famous American singing and dancing star Gene Kelly, from 1975.

    24 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  5. God's Wonderful Railway

    Two men on a train platform from a TV drama set in the Edwardian period

    57 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  6. It's a Knockout

    Picture from 'It's A Knockout'.

    44 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  7. Jackanory Bernard Cribbins

    Bernard Cribbins on 'Jackanory', the children's storytelling programme.

    34 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  8. Jackanory Kenneth Williams

    Kenneth Williams

    31 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  9. Jack Lemon

    Jack Lemon special guest on Parkinson.

    34 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  10. Jimmy Hill

    Jimmy Hill, 'Match of the Day', 1973

    51 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  11. Johhny Morris & Parrot

    Johnny Morris, host of 'Animal Magic', holding Brolly the Parrot, from 1981.

    39 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  12. John Peel

    John Peel at his disc jockeys studio in Broadcasting House talking about the youth revolution in 'Ten Years of What?' from 1969.

    1 MB

    1970s, tv and radio, audio