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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Search Results
2977 results found
Gameboy
Children playing Game Boy
62 KB
2000s, childhood, images
Playroom
Toys and games in a play-room, 2005
107 KB
2000s, childhood, images
Game Boy
Children playing Game Boy
67 KB
2000s, leisure, images
Alzheimer's Love
A shared moment of tenderness between Willie and Alison, a couple who have shared a rich life together but now face the challenges of an uncertain future as old age approaches.
3 MB
2000s, people, audio
Class
Chick is a former miner from Pontefract in Yorkshire. He discusses his life in a conversation with his granddaughter Lindsay, whose eyes are set on a very different career path.
1 MB
2000s, people, audio
Factory Closure
Alan and Christine from Stoke on Trent talk about the magnetic hold the town's Spode porcelain factory has had on their lives.
4 MB
2000s, people, audio
Grandad And Grandaughter
A conversation between a grandfather and granddaughter whose life experiences have differed widely, but whose closeness is all too apparent.
4 MB
2000s, people, audio
Love And Cats
Jim and Joan from Northern Ireland share an intimate moment of conversation about growing old together and the end of life.
3 MB
2000s, people, audio
Love And Marriage
Jasmit and Jaswant from Lincolnshire, who prove, after 34 years of happy marriage, that arranged marriage can work.
3 MB
2000s, people, audio
Home From School
Mother and kids walking home from school, 2000
139 KB
2000s, childhood, images
Typing Computer
Junior School Children in Classroom, 2000
93 KB
2000s, childhood, images
Pigs
Pigs in a Sty
95 KB
2000s, animals, images
