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

Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Only Fools Grandad

    Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney Trotter, David Jason as Derek Trotter and Lennard Pearce as Granddad, from 'Only Fools And Horses'

    44 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  2. Open All Hours

    Ronnie Barker as Arkwright, David Jason as Granville and Lynda Baron as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel from 'Open All Hours'

    48 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  3. Open All Hours

    Ronnie Barker as Albert Arkwright, David Jason as Granville and Lynda Baron as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, from 'Open All Hours'

    43 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  4. Parkinson

    Introduction to 'Parkinson' interview with Dudley Moore, form 1980s

    17 MB

    1980s, tv and radio, video

  5. Parkinson Redford

    Michael Parkinson and Robert Redford who was a guest on his show

    59 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  6. Pebble Mill

    Introduction to 'Pebble Mill' from 1981

    18 MB

    1980s, tv and radio, video

  7. Playschool

    Clip from 'Playschool' from 1987

    14 MB

    1980s, tv and radio, video

  8. Question Of Sport

    Introduction to 'A Question Of Sport' from 1983

    18 MB

    1980s, tv and radio, video

  9. Red Dwarf

    Craig Charles as Lister (bottom) Chris Barrie as Rimmer, from 'Red Dwarf'

    36 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  10. Robert Redford

    Robert Redford being interviewed on the chat show 'Parkinson', from 1980.

    40 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  11. Rodhull & Emu

    Rod Hull and Emu in Emu's Magical Christmas Show

    10 MB

    1980s, tv and radio, video

  12. Rod Hull & Emu

    Rod Hull and Emu in Emu's Magical Christmas Show

    37 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images