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
Airforce Band
3rd United States Airforce Band playing at RAF Lakenheath
94 KB
1980s, music, images
Bob Marley
Bob Marley
41 KB
1980s, music, images
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry from Roxy Music, 1980
54 KB
1980s, music, images
Chas and Dave
Chas and Dave backstage at Top of the Pops
75 KB
1980s, music, images
Hot Chocolate
Hot Chocolate (including lead singer Errol Brown) performing on 'Top of the Pops' 1980
97 KB
1980s, music, images
Madness
Madness performing on 'Top of the Pops' 1980
96 KB
1980s, music, images
Motorhead
Motorhead performing on 'Top of the Pops' 1980
80 KB
1980s, music, images
Song For Europe
The Main Event in Song For Europe, 1980
85 KB
1980s, music, images
Split Enz
Split Enz backstage on Top of the Pops who performed 'I Got You' on the show in 1980.
70 KB
1980s, music, images
Squeeze
Squeeze. 1980
80 KB
1980s, music, images
The Jam
The Jam performing on 'Top of the Pops' 1980
123 KB
1980s, music, images
The Police
The Band The Police taken during their tour of the Far East, 1980
79 KB
1980s, music, images
