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.
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Factory Worker
Visits to factories are an important part of the research work on these BBC programmes, and here is Mr. Wynford Reynolds, 'Music While You Work', obtaining the opinions of a worker (June 1942).
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1940s, people, images
Factory Workers
Workers before the broadcast from an aircraft factory in the BBC Home and Forces programmes.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Workers Northern Ireland
Spinning flax in a typical Northern Ireland factory.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Workers Yorkshire
The Worker of the Week (behind the microphone). She has risen from the lowest grade of worker in a Yorkshire Royal Ordnance Factory, to Shop Supervisor
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1940s, people, images
Family Radio Listening
A Cornish fishing family gathered round a wireless set in 1948.
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1940s, people, images
Female Factory Worker
A fuse worker in England. A series of features on the War effort. Produced in collaboration with a big Northern Munitions factory.
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1940s, people, images
Fishermen
Looe fishermen gathered around a radio in the local pub
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1940s, people, images
Fishermen In Pub 2
Looe fishermen gathered around a radio in the local pub
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1940s, people, images
Fishermen In Pub
Looe fishermen gathered around a radio in the local pub
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1940s, people, images
Fish Scotland
Fishermen
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1940s, people, images
Fishwife
A Newhaven fishwife, leader of the Newhaven Fishergirl choir.
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1940s, people, images
Frank Gillard
Frank Gillard recording a VE Day picture of Kassel
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1940s, people, images
