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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Search Results
2977 results found
Trip To Aberavon
Trip to Aberavon, 1930
686 KB
1930s, leisure, audio
Casals
Pablo Casals performing in 1936.
26 KB
1930s, music, images
Gene Autry
Gene Autry with his musicians
47 KB
1930s, music, images
Luton Ceylon Choir
The Luton Ceylon Junior Choir
42 KB
1930s, music, images
Miss Mabel
Rhythm and blues singer Mabel Scott.
33 KB
1930s, music, images
Norman Long Piano
Norman Long at the piano.
33 KB
1930s, music, images
Street Musicians
A group of street musicians performing on the radio programme From the London Streets.
66 KB
1930s, music, images
String Section
Instruments of the Orchestra: Strings, 1930
47 KB
1930s, music, images
Teddy Brown
Teddy Brown (virtuoso xylophone player of the 1920s - 1940s) in 'Music Hall Hour', March 1935.
28 KB
1930s, music, images
The Boswell Sisters
The Boswell Sisters: Connee, Helvetia and Martha.
31 KB
1930s, music, images
Woodwind
Instruments of the Orchestra: Woodwind, 1930
41 KB
1930s, music, images
Xylophone
BBC Theatre Orchestra , conducted by Stanford Robinson. Close up of vibraphone and xylophone
27 KB
1930s, music, images
