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. Butlin's Bognor

    People having fun at Butlins, Bognor Regis. 1982

    4 MB

    1980s, leisure, video

  2. Paul McCartney

    Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has chosen for the 40th anniversry edition of 'Desert Island Discs' to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday January 30th 1982.

    48 KB

    1980s, music, images

  3. Patrick Moore

    Patrick Moore, 1982

    92 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  4. Kim Wilde

    Kim Wilde performing 'View from a Bridge' on 'Top of the Pops' 1982

    75 KB

    1980s, music, images

  5. Police Car Ride

    Ride along the M4 inside a Police Car, 1982

    13 MB

    1980s, people, video

  6. Scotland World Cup

    Scotland Football World Club Cup Squad with (at the microphone) John Gordon Sinclair performing 'I Have a Dream'. 1982

    85 KB

    1980s, music, images

  7. Status Quo

    Status Quo on 'Top of the Pops' 1982

    72 KB

    1980s, music, images

  8. Spitalfields Market

    Hustle and Bustle of Spitalfields Market, 1982

    7 MB

    1980s, people, video

  9. Trio

    Trio perfroming 'Da Da Da' on 'Top of the Pops', 1982

    97 KB

    1980s, music, images

  10. Toto Coelo

    Toto Coelo, 1982

    91 KB

    1980s, music, images

  11. We Are The Champions

    Teams compete in 'tunnel ball' during the semi final of We Are The Champions

    114 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  12. Factory Workers

    Workers leaving for home at the end of the day, 1982

    9 MB

    1980s, people, video