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
Opera House
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
49 KB
1950s, people, images
People Talking
The BBC Club Summer Festival at Motspur Park.
41 KB
1950s, people, images
Policeman
A policeman explains traffic control to Raymond Baxter
63 KB
1950s, people, images
Pub Piano
Member of the BBC Norwegian Section recording songs new and old at the White Horse Inn, Hampstead. At the piano is a lorry driver, who plays at the Inn on Saturdays and Sundays. Also seen is a widow of 70 and a mother of eight, who is a regular at the Inn.
57 KB
1950s, people, images
Rail Workers
The laying the television camera cable across the railway track at Calais Maritime.
64 KB
1950s, people, images
BBC Restaurant
A corner of the restaurant in BBC Kingswood Warren
51 KB
1950s, people, images
Rock And Roll
Rock and roll, 1950s
787 KB
1950s, people, audio
Rock Around The Clock
Rock around the clock, 1950s
2 MB
1950s, people, audio
Smoking Rene
Rene Cutforth, journalist and broadcaster, who is heard frequently in BBC Programmes, May 1954.
37 KB
1950s, people, images
Sorting Office
The sorting office at Manchester GPO
56 KB
1950s, people, images
Staff Party
Members of staff at the annual BBC Club party at Broadcasting House, Cardiff. The post-boy Peter Morris chooses a record with the assistance of Controller, BBC Wales
43 KB
1950s, people, images
Street Lime Grove
Lime Grove, with BBC Television studios at end of street on the left.
46 KB
1950s, people, images
