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
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2977 results found
Tennis John McEnroe
John McEnroe, runner up in the Men's Singles Tennis Final at Wimbledon in 1982.
37 KB
1980s, sport, images
Windsurfer
A windsurfer off the coast of Brighton, from 1980
105 KB
1980s, sport, images
BBC Schedule
A BBC TV schedule from 1980s
9 MB
1980s, tv and radio, video
Blue Peter
Blue Peter' presenters Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan and Simon Groom with Roland Rat in the Blue Peter studio, from 1986.
38 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter Crew
Blue Peter' presenters Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding with Bonnie the dog, from 1988.
38 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter Star Wars
Simon Groom, 'Blue Peter' presenter with Star Wars characters
33 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Bread
Cast of the sitcom 'Bread'. The characters are Jack Boswell, Shifty, Aveline, Oswald, Granddad, Freddie Boswell, Joey Boswell, Nellie Boswell, Billy Boswell.
46 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Butterflies
Nicholas Lyndhurst as Adam Parkinson and Andrew Hall as Russell Parkinson (bottom, l-r) Wendy Craig as Ria Parkinson and Geoffrey Palmer as Ben Parkinson in 'Butterflies'.
40 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Cast of Hi De Hi
The cast of 'Hi De Hi, including Ruth Madoc as Gladys Pugh, Simon Cadell as Jeffrey Fairbrother, Jeffrey Holland as Spike Dixon, Paul Shane as Ted Bovis, and Su Pollard as Peggy Ollerenshaw.
51 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Ceefax Operators
Ceefax Sub Editors preparing pages of Ceefax news on the Colombia Space Shuttle Launch on a Visual Display Unit and keyboard.
43 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Ceefax Weather
An example of Ceefax, a weather forecast from 1981.
28 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Come Dancing
Dancers from the show 'Come Dancing'.
48 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
