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. Dusty Springfield TOTP

    Dusty Springfield with Peter Murray who introduced the programme. Dusty rehearses and Peter presents.

    44 KB

    1960s, music, images

  2. Eurovision

    Jacqueline Boyer singing the winning French song in the Eurovision Song Contest.

    64 KB

    1960s, music, images

  3. Flanders & Swann

    Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, two masters of the satirical song.

    39 KB

    1960s, music, images

  4. Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac - John McVie, Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan and Mick Fleetwood.

    46 KB

    1960s, music, images

  5. Four And Twenty Blackbirds

    The song 'Four and Twenty Blackbirds' from 1960s

    12 MB

    1960s, music, video

  6. Gerry & The Crowd

    Gerry and The Pacemakers performing on 'Top Beat'.

    39 KB

    1960s, music, images

  7. Gerry And The Pacemakers

    Gerry and the Pacemakers

    35 KB

    1960s, music, images

  8. Gerry Marsden

    Gerry Marsden, of Gerry and the Pacemakers

    28 KB

    1960s, music, images

  9. Joe Morello

    The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass.

    30 KB

    1960s, music, images

  10. John Williams

    John Williams playing the guitar..

    28 KB

    1960s, music, images

  11. London Welsh Choir

    Terry James conducting the London Welsh Youth Choir in the concert hall at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

    46 KB

    1960s, music, images

  12. Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong in 1965

    31 KB

    1960s, music, images