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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Munitons Effort 2
BBC Staff in London helping to make munitions after office hours. Over a hundred men and women are helping regularly.
49 KB
1940s, people, images
Munitons Effort
BBC Staff in London helping to make munitions after office hours. Over a hundred men and women are helping regularly
46 KB
1940s, people, images
Muntions Effort 3
BBC Staff in London helping to make munitions after office hours. Over a hundred men and women are helping regularly.
41 KB
1940s, people, images
Newcastle On Tyne
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tyne Bridge
56 KB
1940s, people, images
Noel Coward
Noel Coward broadcasting on the BBC.
34 KB
1940s, people, images
BBC Wood Norton Canteen
General view of Canteen at the BBC Engineering Training Department at Wood Norton Hall.
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1940s, people, images
Nurse & Pensioner
Wynford Vaughan Thomas with a BBC microphone at the bombed Royal Hospital, Chelsea. An old pensioner and a nurse who helped in the rescue work are being interviewed
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1940s, people, images
Office Lady
BBC Staff, Club Office, London.
40 KB
1940s, people, images
Office Translators
Translating a news bulletin into German. Smoking a pipe is the chief translator.
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1940s, people, images
Office Workers
The BBC newsroom during the final stages of preparation of a news bulletin. In the centre group.
51 KB
1940s, people, images
Pat Kirkwood
Pat Kirkwood (centre) , the young and glamorous star of the stage, films and radio entertains the Forces Overseas in the BBCs Overseas Shortwave Service.
38 KB
1940s, people, images
Princess Margaret Launches Ship
Princess Margaret launches a ship, form the 1940s
40 MB
1940s, people, video
