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
Garro Jones
Chairman of the Television Advisory Committee, speaking at the re-opening of the Television Service, after its suspension during the Second World War, on June 7th 1946.
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1940s, people, images
Glenn Miller Portrait
Glen MIller in 1944.
28 KB
1940s, people, images
Gloucestershire
A broadcast from Camp, Gloucestershire
65 KB
1940s, people, images
Henry Wood
A picture of Sir Henry Wood with his wife, Lady Wood, taken on July 11 1943.
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1940s, people, images
Humber Pullman Car
The BBC Mobile Unit, consisting of a 27 h.p. Humber 'Pullman' car with Type C recording equipment installed, August 1949.
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1940s, people, images
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker the international revue and cabaret star at the opening of her television programme on June 29th 1948.At the Piano is Pierre Guillermin.
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1940s, people, images
Journalists
Sub editors at work on the Daily digest of Foreign Broadcasts issued by the Monitoring Service. About 240 broadcasts a day are scanned, checked, summarised and published each morning in a document of about 80,000 words
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1940s, people, images
Laurence Olivier
Two of the leading actors, Laurence Olivier (foreground) who played Christopher Columbus and Marius Goring, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the background.
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1940s, people, images
Lawnmower
A Lancashire market gardener, with his wife in the garden of their house near Southport. In a special edition of Transatlantic Call entitled Britain Mourns a Friend, the British people pay tribute to President Roosevelt.
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1940s, people, images
Michael Betts
Sports special broadcast. A rugby league reporter, checks the details with a colleague, compiling results
56 KB
1940s, people, images
Multi Racial Jiving
Multi-racial Jiving, 1940s
1 MB
1940s, people, audio
Munitions
BBC Staff in London helping to make munitions after office hours. Over a hundred men and women are helping regularly.
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1940s, people, images
