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
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2977 results found
Table Tennis
A table tennis practice match showing 29 year old Ken Craigie (top) and Aubrey Symons who, in 1953 was the first recipient of the Victor Barns Player of the Year award.
45 KB
1950s, sport, images
Wally Barnes
Wally Barnes. A former Arsenal Soccer player, Welsh International and Welsh Team Manager who appeared in Sportsview in September 1954
46 KB
1950s, sport, images
Welsh Footballer
Ivor Allchurch playing football for the Welsh national team against Denmark
55 KB
1950s, sport, images
Al Read Show
Al Read show, 1950s
2 MB
1950s, tv and radio, audio
Andrews & Wilde
Julie Andrews with Marty Wilde.
40 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Archers Summer Fête
Church Fete in Ambridge in the summer of 1959
92 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Arthur Askey
Bob Monkhouse, Richard Murdoch, Denis Goodwin, Pat Coombs, Arthur Askey and Diana Decker.
45 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Beyond Our Ken
Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Patricia Lancaster, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee, who make up the cast of Beyond Our Ken, a popular comedy series broadcast in the BBC Light Programme.
48 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Blue Peter with Doll
Leila Williams who, with Christopher Trace, introduces new programme Blue Peter, presented on Thursdays for the five to eleven year olds.
38 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Children's Hour
Presenter Jack Lester introducing a young alligator to the microphone in 1951
60 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Children Watch Andy Pandy
Four children seated watching Andy Pandy (Andy Pandy came to the screen in March 1950) on old fashioned Black and White Television set.
47 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Crackerjack
Eamonn Andrews with young contestant in 'Double or Drop' - televised on alternate Wednesdays in 'Crackerjack', 1957.
52 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
