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

  1. Patch Blue Peter

    Patch, the Blue Peter dog, in 1966. Patch appeared on the show between 1965 & 1971

    28 KB

    1960s, animals, images

  2. Martians

    Children Talking - Martians, 1960s

    1 MB

    1960s, childhood, audio

  3. Anger

    Children Talking - Anger, 1960s

    2 MB

    1960s, childhood, audio

  4. Bravery

    Children Talking - Bravery, 1970s

    830 KB

    1960s, childhood, audio

  5. Changing Times

    Children Talking - Changing times, 1960s

    992 KB

    1960s, childhood, audio

  6. Children

    Children who took part in 'Time Out', a weekly programme reporting on the world of leisure.

    40 KB

    1960s, childhood, images

  7. Children Play

    Children playing in 1960s

    4 MB

    1960s, childhood, video

  8. Children Playing

    Children who took part in 'Time Out', a weekly programme reporting on the world of leisure.

    68 KB

    1960s, childhood, images

  9. Children Playing With Toys

    Children at a Barnados home at Barkingside, Essex. The reactions of the children, aged between two and six, were filmed when they were let loose on a treasure heap of toys.

    44 KB

    1960s, childhood, images

  10. Children With Toys

    Children at a Barnados home at Barkingside, Essex. The reactions of the children, aged between two and six, were filmed when they were let loose on a treasure heap of toys.

    46 KB

    1960s, childhood, images

  11. Couple

    Children Talking - Couple, 1960s

    451 KB

    1960s, childhood, audio

  12. Dinosaur

    Children Talking - Dinosaurs, 1960s

    726 KB

    1960s, childhood, audio