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
Joe Dolce
Joe Dolce performing 'Shaddap You Face' on 'Top of the Pops' 1981
102 KB
1980s, music, images
Sir Andrew Davies
Sir Andrew Davies conducting the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, 1981
80 KB
1980s, music, images
Teardrop
Teardrop Explodes, 1981
67 KB
1980s, music, images
The Beat
The Beat backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1981
77 KB
1980s, music, images
The Cure
The Cure, 1981
54 KB
1980s, music, images
The Specials
The Specials. 1981
84 KB
1980s, music, images
Ultravox
Ultravox performing 'Vienna' on 'Top of the Pops' 1981
88 KB
1980s, music, images
David Bellamy
David Bellamy, 1981
40 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Des O'Connor
Des O Connor with singer Cleo Lane, 1981
88 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Doctor Who Baker
Tom Baker as Dr Who in 'Dr Who: Warrior's Gate' 1981
85 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Doctor Who K9
K-9, Tom Baker who plays the fourth Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana, in the Dr Who episode The Leisure Hive (5N). 1981
116 KB
1980s, tv and radio, images
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards seen here in 1981.
28 KB
1980s, sport, images
