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

  1. Vision On

    Pat Keysell (presenter), Ben Benison, Tony Hart (presenter), and Wilfred Makepeace Lunn, from 'Vision On', a programme for deaf and hearing children featuring art, mime, sketches, music and animations. On the wall is the Grog, the Vision On symbol.

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    1970s, tv and radio, images

  2. Vision On Colour

    Pat Keysell and Tony Hart in 'Vision On' - programme for deaf and hearing children featuring art, mime, sketches, music and animations. Presented by Tony Hart.

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    1970s, tv and radio, images

  3. Weather Lady

    Barbara Edwards, one of the team of meteorologists from the Meteorological office.

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    1970s, tv and radio, images

  4. Weather Man

    Jack Scott, one of the team of weatherman from the Meteorological office.

    29 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  5. What's My Line

    Williams Franklyn, Isobel Barnett (the only member of the original panel), David Jacobs, Anna Quayle, Kenneth Williams, when 'What's My Line?' returned after an absence of ten years.

    60 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  6. Wolfie Smith

    Robert Lindsay, as Tooting revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the comedy sitcom 'Citizen Smith'.

    39 KB

    1970s, tv and radio, images

  7. Caravan

    Caravan, 'Top of The Pop' 1971

    64 KB

    1970s, music, images

  8. Cliff Richard

    Cliff Richard on 'Top of the Pops' January 1971.

    63 KB

    1970s, music, images

  9. David Cassidy

    David Cassidy. 1971

    73 KB

    1970s, music, images

  10. David Essex

    David Essex, 1971

    70 KB

    1970s, music, images

  11. Fairport Convention

    Fairport Convention backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1971

    66 KB

    1970s, music, images

  12. Genesis

    Genesis - band which launched careers of Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.

    63 KB

    1970s, music, images