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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  1. Princess Margaret Launches Ship

    Princess Margaret Launches Ship, 1940s

    3 MB

    1940s, people, audio

  2. Pub Drinkers

    Honor Balfour (centre) with the cricket team from the village of Cassington, Oxfordshire, in his radio survey of village life and people.

    45 KB

    1940s, people, images

  3. Quick Lunch Canteen

    Wynford Vaughan Thomas interviews Lady Gater and her staff of the voluntary workers in the National Gallery quick-lunch canteen for the Services and war workers.

    63 KB

    1940s, people, images

  4. Restaurant

    A restaurant/canteen in Broadcasting House

    47 KB

    1940s, people, images

  5. Scotland Seaweed

    Seaweed for the factory, Scotland

    69 KB

    1940s, people, images

  6. Southfleet

    The people of Southfleet, Kent gather around the BBC Mobile recording cars

    64 KB

    1940s, people, images

  7. Spitfire Pilot

    Squadron Leader stands in front of his Spitfire circa 1944

    46 KB

    1940s, people, images

  8. Spy Ring

    Spyring, 1940s

    5 MB

    1940s, people, audio

  9. Swansea

    The centre of Swansea which was destroyed in the raids of 1941.

    80 KB

    1940s, people, images

  10. Swedish Choir

    The Swedish Madrigalker Choir at Llangollen Eisteddfod 1948

    49 KB

    1940s, people, images

  11. Swimming Champ

    An International Swimming Competition held in London in 1943. Here is the holder of the men's record for three hundred metres free style swimming.

    38 KB

    1940s, people, images

  12. Traffic Manager's Office

    Traffic Managers office: the control centre for the reception and distribution of dispatches from correspondence abroad

    52 KB

    1940s, people, images