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
Canadian Army Choir
Members of a Canadian Army choir which took part in the concert broadcast on Christmas Eve
54 KB
1940s, people, images
Canteen People
A BBC Canteen in London
54 KB
1940s, people, images
Car
Wynford Vaughan Thomas, BBC commentator, recording a description of the countryside at Bantry Bay, Co, Cork.
49 KB
1940s, people, images
Celebration
The Kobenhavn Kammerkor (Copenhagen Choir) of Denmark, celebrate winning the Traditional Folk Song competition at the 1948 Llangollen Eisteddfod
38 KB
1940s, people, images
Chamber Choir
International Eisteddfod, LLangollen, Wales. Members of the Akademie Kammerchor (Chamber Choir) enjoying themselves at the river Dee.
56 KB
1940s, people, images
Cinema Back Row
Back row of the cinema, 1940s
915 KB
1940s, people, audio
Club Secretary
BBC staff, Club Office, London.
40 KB
1940s, people, images
Darts Pub
Joint BBC, CBS International Exchange Series Transatlantic Call. Under the dartboard and the chalk sketch of Winston Churchill, a merchant seaman describes to CBS commentator Bob Trout, seated with an ambulance driver and a cockney workman.
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1940s, people, images
Despatch Riders
The Daily Digest of World Broadcasts brought up from Caversham by special car arrives in the London Office of the Monitoring Service at 10.15 am each morning, for distribution. Two members of the office handing over important documents to the war dispatch riders to be rushed to various official destinations.
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1940s, people, images
Despatch Riders
The Daily Digest of World Broadcasts brought up from Caversham by special car arrives in the London Office of the Monitoring Service at 10.15 am each morning, for distribution. Two members of the office handing over important documents to the war dispatch riders to be rushed to various official destinations.
50 KB
1940s, people, images
Digging
Digging is under way on the Radio allotment, run by members of the BBC Outside Broadcasting Dept in a London square.
51 KB
1940s, people, images
Electronics Factory
Electronic Factory, 1940s
943 KB
1940s, people, audio
