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
Geraldo Orchestra
Geraldo and his Orchestra giving a television performance on June 7th 1946, the day of the re-opening of the Television Service after its suspension during World War II
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1940s, music, images
Girl Group
Martin and the Coys, (l-r) Bella Allen, Lily May Pearson, Margaret Johnson and Rosalie Allen.
39 KB
1940s, music, images
Glenn Miller Band
Glen Miller and his band. Various departments of the BBC were relocated for reasons of safety out of London to Bedford during the war. Suitably sized studios for the full orchestra were made available in the Corn Exchange in St Paul’s Square and in the Great Hall of Bedford School
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1940s, music, images
Hall Johnson Choir
The Hall Johnson Choir, conducted by Hall Johnson. Geoffrey Bridsons production The Man Who Went to War a ballad opera, written by Langston Hughes, recorded in New York on 20/02/44 at the World Broadcasting Studios.
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1940s, music, images
Ives Guthrie
Lee Hays, Burl Ives, Cisco Houston and Woody Guthrie.
62 KB
1940s, music, images
Lamber Conductor
Constant Lambert, the British composer and conductor
36 KB
1940s, music, images
London Choir
Choir directed by Norris Smit
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1940s, music, images
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee. Geoffrey Bridsons production The Man Who Went to War a ballad opera, written by Langston Hughes, recorded in New York in 1944 at the World Broadcasting Studios.
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1940s, music, images
The Proms
The scene on the Royal Albert Hall on the last night of the forty eight season of the Promenade Concerts. The conductor is Sir Henry Wood.
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1940s, music, images
War Music 2
WW2 Music
854 KB
1940s, music, audio
War Music
WW2 Music
602 KB
1940s, music, audio
Josh White, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee
Josh White (left) with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee. Geoffrey Bridsons production The Man Who Went to War a ballad opera, written by Langston Hughes, recorded in New York on 20/02/44 at the World Broadcasting Studios.
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1940s, music, images
