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
- Downloading audio items will include both the audio files and a ‘poster image’ for each audio item, if available
- Downloading image items will just include the images
- All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items
Search Results
2977 results found
Park Guitarist
A female singer guitarist playing in Hyde park, form 1950s
18 MB
1950s, music, video
Robin Richmond
Robin Richmond at his Hammond Organ
43 KB
1950s, music, images
Salvation Army
Salvation Army band from 1950s
21 MB
1950s, music, video
Solaru & Soyinka
Banjo Solaru introducing Wole Soyinka in the programme 'Calling Nigeria Christmas Concert' on Christmas Eve, 1959
35 KB
1950s, music, images
Solomon Piano
Pianist Solomon playing a Steinway piano.
26 KB
1950s, music, images
Stern Violinist
Isaac Stern. Violinist
24 KB
1950s, music, images
Teenage Rockers
Teenage Rockers from the 1950s
24 MB
1950s, music, video
Ambition
Ambition, 1950s
1 MB
1950s, people, audio
Awards
The BBC Club Summer Festival at Motspur Park.
48 KB
1950s, people, images
Baptist Church Bristol
West Indian Minister Pastor Cooke conducting a Jamaican service at the City Road Baptist Church in Bristol. This is the first time that West Indians in Bristol had had the opportunity of taking part ina service conducted in the Jamaican manner.
52 KB
1950s, people, images
Barmen
Scene in the BBC Club, Chandos street.
61 KB
1950s, people, images
BBC Broadcasting House
BBC Broadcasting House
55 KB
1950s, people, images
