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. Wogan

    Terry Wogan, smiling of course, seen here at the microphone in the studio of his BBC Radio 2 (Radio Two) programme.

    31 KB

    2000s, tv and radio, images

  2. Chess

    Chess pieces on a board

    76 KB

    2000s, leisure, images

  3. Otter

    Otter, 2005

    117 KB

    2000s, animals, images

  4. Holidaymakers

    Elderly holidaymakers hold each others hands as they walk along on a beach in Zanzibar, Tanzania 2008

    80 KB

    2000s, leisure, images

  5. Serpentine Gallery

    Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 : Designed by Frank Gehry.

    124 KB

    2000s, people, images

  6. Playing In Snow

    People playing in the snow on Hampstead Heath after heavy snowfall, January 2010

    145 KB

    2000s, childhood, images

  7. Playing In Snow

    People playing in the snow on Hampstead Heath after heavy snowfall, January 2010

    85 KB

    2000s, events, images

  8. Playing In Snow

    People playing in the snow on Hampstead Heath after heavy snowfall, January 2010

    147 KB

    2000s, people, images

  9. Playground

    Children playing in the playground 2011

    128 KB

    2000s, childhood, images

  10. Badminton

    Pupils play badmington in the gym at Chessington Community College 2011

    98 KB

    2000s, leisure, images

  11. Children Football

    Pupils play football at Chessington Community College 2011

    174 KB

    2000s, sport, images

  12. Jubilee Street

    Union jack flags on display in Regent Street, London to celebrate the 60th Jubilee of the Queen coming to the throne 2012

    154 KB

    2000s, events, images