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
Lucky Jim
Enn Reitel as Jim Dicxon and Anthony Shell as Maurice Victor with Glynis Barber as Lucy Simmonds in The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim
57 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Sally James
Sally James from TISWAS, 1980
62 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Seconds Out
Robert Lindsay and Alan Winter as boxers in Seconds Out, 1980
47 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Speak For Yourself
Indira Joshi, Marina Sirtes and Isla St Clair presenters of Speak For Yourself a programme to help UK residents who's first language is not English, 1980
84 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan and Julian Brick in a sketch from Q9
59 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
That's Life Team
The That's Life Team at home, Gavin Campbell, Adrian Mills, Grant Baynham, Doc COx and Esther Rantzen, 1986
69 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
TOTP set
Top of the Pops audience. 1980's
113 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood, 1980s
50 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Warren Mitchell
Warren mitchell and Una Stubbs as Alf and Rita
88 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Superstars Swimmer
Sharon Colyear, Britains most versatile athlete and Commonwealth gold medallist, waiting to compete in the swimming event at Wycombe Sports Centre, during the competition to find the British Womens Superstars Champion, 1980
54 KB
1980s, sport, images
Filming
Cameraman filming the annual Oxford V Cambridge Boat Race
150 KB
1980s, people, images
Beach Play
Children playing on the beach in winter, 1980
7 MB
1980s, childhood, video
