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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2977 results found
Love In A Cycle Club
Love in a cycling club, 1940s
2 MB
1940s, leisure, audio
Motor Bike And Sidecar
Motorbike and sidecar, 1940s
1 MB
1940s, leisure, audio
Pub Skittles
President of The Black Lion Skittles Club, watches the cheese being hurled down the skittle alley at 'The Black Lion, Hammersmith, London'
42 KB
1940s, leisure, images
Runners & Riders
People running and riding bikes, from the 1940s
35 MB
1940s, leisure, video
Yacht Racing
BBC Portuguese commentator: Yacht racing in Torquay
43 KB
1940s, leisure, images
Carmen Miranda
A still from The Gangs all Here Carmen Miranda as Dorita with Tony de Marco as himself in the romantic musical film The Gangs all Here
51 KB
1940s, music, images
Casals & Boult
Cellist Pablo Casals with Sir Adrian Boult circa 1945.
29 KB
1940s, music, images
Charlie Kunz
Pianist Charlie Kunz.
31 KB
1940s, music, images
Creek Girls
Female musicians
51 KB
1940s, music, images
Country Stars
(back l-r) Bill Rector, Fred Smith, J.E. Mainer and Wade Mainer (front) Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston.
60 KB
1940s, music, images
Edmundo Ros
Venezuelan Edmundo Hos, whose rumba band from a well-known London nightclub is featured regularly in BBC Overseas programmes. Cecil Madden is compering the programme at the microphone.
54 KB
1940s, music, images
Forces Music Club
The Forces Music Club at rehearsal. On the left is producer and he is seated between an ATS girl and soldiers whose choice of items has been selected for the programme. On the right is Adrian Boult who is conducting the BBC Orchestra.
46 KB
1940s, music, images
