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
John Wayne
Legendary American film actor John Wayne
28 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Williams, from 1976.
34 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Kickstart
A stunt cyclist taking part in 'Kick Start', where top international motor cyclists compete.
50 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Life On Earth
David Attenborough with Gorillas in a scene from Life On Earth, from 1979
17 MB
1970s, tv and radio, video
Michael Caine
Michael Caine smoking a cigar on chat show 'Parkinson', February 1976.
31 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Monty Python
'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - (l-r) Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Jimmy Purdie (Technical Manager), Eric Idle, Graham Chapman.
39 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Terry Jones as Mystico and Eric Idle as Arthur Huntingdon and (bottom l-r) Michael Palin as Heathcliff and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Jupp in the housing project by English literature characters from 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', 1972.
56 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Morecambe And Wise 2
Morecambe and Wise, from mid 70s.
54 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Morecambe And Wise
Sir Robin Day appearing on the Morecambe and Wise Show in 1970 Left to Right - Ernie Wise, Robin Day, Barbara Murray, Eric Morecambe, Michael Redgrave, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer
40 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
41 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Nurses
Karen David as Sita, Lesley Dunlop as Ruth, Fiona Fullerton as Patricia, Julie Dawn Cole as Jo, Clare Clifford as Shirley, Erin Geraghty as Maureen in 'Angels', a TV series about the lives of six student nurses.
33 KB
1970s, tv and radio, images
Old Grey Whistle
Introduction to 'The Old Grey Whistle Test' from 1968
9 MB
1970s, tv and radio, video
