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
The Who
The Who
45 KB
1960s, music, images
The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds performing in 1965. Jim McCarty (drums), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass), Eric Clapton (guitar) Keith Relf (vocals) and Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar).
46 KB
1960s, music, images
Top Beat Musicians
Some of the artists who took part in the Top Beat Programme. Billy J. Kramer (second from left - laughing). the Hollies (centre) with Brian Poole and the Tremolos and Freddie and the Dreamers.
38 KB
1960s, music, images
Treorchy Male Voice Choir
Treorchy Male Voice Choir in 1968, under the baton of their Associate Conductor, John Cynan Jones, seated on the right of the photograph. Seated in the front on the left is the Choir's Conductor John Haydn Davies.
49 KB
1960s, music, images
Tubby Hayes
Tubby Hayes (saxophone) Jimmy Deuchar (trumpet), Allan Ganley (drums), Freddie Logan (bass) Terry Shannon (piano) and Steve Race (compere) in the background.
39 KB
1960s, music, images
Val & Kids
Val Doonican with some young listeners in Barn Dance.
41 KB
1960s, music, images
Val Doonican
Val Doonican starring in his own show, 'The Val Doonican Show'.
45 KB
1960s, music, images
Welsh Male Voice Choir
a Welsh male voice choir, from 1960s
16 MB
1960s, music, video
Audience
Part of the audience for Juke Box Jury. The three young people with the hit signs are helping the panel decide whether a particular pop number might be a hit or not.
41 KB
1960s, people, images
BBC Canteen
The canteen in BBC Wales Llandaff building, Cardiff
50 KB
1960s, people, images
BBC Pakistan Service
The young audience with members of the cast at the Children's Variety Programme recorded by the BBC Pakistan Service.
54 KB
1960s, people, images
Behind The Bar
The BBC Club at Television Centre, 1960
44 KB
1960s, people, images
