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.
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2977 results found
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson in 1988
91 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
John Peel
John Peel at his disc jockeys studio in Broadcasting House talking about the youth revolution in 'Ten Years of What?' from 1969.
452 KB
1980s, tv and radio, audio
Jossy's Giants
The cast of 'Jossy's Giants' - Jim Barclay as Jossy Blair and Christopher Burgess as Albert Hanson, Julie Foy as Tracey Gaunt - in the series about Jossy Blair and his football team the 'Giants'.
48 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
June & Terry
June Whitfield as June Medford and Terry Scott as Terry Medford in series one of the comedy sitcom 'Terry and June'.
52 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Keith Harris And Orville
The ventriloquist Keith Harris with Orville the duck.
31 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Larry Grayson - Generation Game
Introduction to 'The Generation Game' with Larry Grayson, from 1974
18 MB
1980s, tv and radio, video
Last Of The Summer Wine
Bill Owen as Compo, Brian Wilde as Foggy and Peter Sallis as Clegg in 'Last Of The Summer Wine'
57 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Les Dawson
Les Dawson wearing his hair in rollers, from 1980.
40 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Newsround
A clip about gold from 'Newsround' presented by John Craven, from the 1980s
24 MB
1980s, tv and radio, video
Newsweek
Donald MacCormick, behind the desk of the BBC current affairs programme Newsweek, from 1980.
89 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Only Fools and Horses 2
Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney Trotter and David Jason as Derek Trotter, from 'Only Fools And Horses'
49 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Only Fools And Horses
The cast of 'Only Fools And Horses' - Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert, David Jason as Del Boy Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney Trotter all standing alongside the Trotters company van (the Robin Reliant), in series five of the comedy sitcom Only Fools and Horses, set in Peckham, South London.
45 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
