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
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2977 results found
BBC Men's Choir
The BBC Men's Chorus with their conductor
41 KB
1950s, people, images
BBC Music Library
The BBC Music Library, 1950.
62 KB
1950s, people, images
BBC Showboat
Julie Andrews singing, accompanied by the Ray Terry Orchestra and the George Mitchell Mariners.
64 KB
1950s, people, images
Bingo Wins
Bingo, 1950s
1 MB
1950s, people, audio
Building & Cars
The north elevation of BBC Langham showing scaffolding and enclosing street hoarding.
68 KB
1950s, people, images
Bush House Canteen
The BBC Canteen at Bush House
48 KB
1950s, people, images
Cadburys Factory Canteen
Mehmet Refit visiting a chocolate factory canteen during the midday break. This edition of the monthly Two Towns programme linked the Turkish Town of Giresun with Bourneville near Birmingham
49 KB
1950s, people, images
Canteen 2
The canteen servery, Television Centre 1954.
54 KB
1950s, people, images
Canteen
The canteen, Television Centre 1954.
52 KB
1950s, people, images
Canteen Bush
The BBC Canteen at Bush House
48 KB
1950s, people, images
Car
Publicity picture from TV show
57 KB
1950s, people, images
Club Derby
The BBC Club Summer Festival at Motspur Park. One of the any heats for the Derby is in progress.
66 KB
1950s, people, images
