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.

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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Lucille Mapp Singer

    Jamaican singer Lucille Mapp, the guest star in Charlie Chester's next Laughter Service show in 1961

    31 KB

    1960s, music, images

  2. Lulu 1

    'Lulu and the Luvers' appear on Top Beat from the Albert Hall.

    45 KB

    1960s, music, images

  3. Lulu

    'Lulu and the Luvers' appear on Top Beat from the Albert Hall.

    50 KB

    1960s, music, images

  4. Male Voice Choir

    Male Voice Choir singing, 1992

    17 MB

    1960s, music, video

  5. Misra & Khan

    Mahapurush Misra playing the tabla and Imrat Khan playing the sitar in 'Indian Music with Imrat Khan', September 1969

    45 KB

    1960s, music, images

  6. Odetta

    folk singer Odetta with J.J. Eden.

    43 KB

    1960s, music, images

  7. Opera

    An orchestra playing in the 1960s

    14 MB

    1960s, music, video

  8. Orchestra

    An orchestra playing in the 1960s

    19 MB

    1960s, music, video

  9. Ringo Starr

    Ringo Starr

    25 KB

    1960s, music, images

  10. Rolling Stones

    Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones performing on Top Beat, direct from the Royal Albert Hall, on Monday April 27th 1964.

    33 KB

    1960s, music, images

  11. Roy Orbison

    A contact sheet showing Roy Orbison backstage at Top of the Pops.

    45 KB

    1960s, music, images

  12. Russ Conway

    Russ Conway (on the piano) with guests Rosa Goldi and Humphrey Lyttelton.

    32 KB

    1960s, music, images