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Rewind
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Rewind

Explore thousands of BBC archive films. This unique collection shows life and events across the UK since the 1940s.

Experience Classical
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Experience Classical

Explore this new way to discover classical music from the BBC

Archive Downloader
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Archive Downloader

Find and download BBC archive video, audio and images for non-commercial reuse

Sound Effects Archive
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Sound Effects Archive

More than 33,000 sound effects, free for personal, educational or research use

Ten Chapters of the Northern Ireland Troubles
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Ten Chapters of the Northern Ireland Troubles

A multi-media view of the 30-year conflict through the BBC archive

Programme Explorer

Programme Explorer

Tune in to more than 200,000 shows from BBC online, Sounds and iPlayer

RemArc - Reminiscence Archive
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RemArc - Reminiscence Archive

More than 3,000 archive items to trigger reminiscence in people with dementia

RAW - from BBC Sounds
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RAW - from BBC Sounds

A collection of audio interviews with some of music's biggest icons

Armistice Day
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Armistice Day

What would you have done in World War One?

Sounds for Studying
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Sounds for Studying

Katie Thistleton curates a selection of BBC audio to help you with Politics, Philosophy, Psychology and other subjects

Virtual reality - 1943 Berlin Blitz
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Virtual reality - 1943 Berlin Blitz

How the BBC has brought one of its most fearless WW2 reports to life in VR

Music Memories
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Music Memories

Help someone with dementia create and share their personal music playlist

Civilisations
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Civilisations

Museums and galleries curate stories that merge their collections with the BBC archive

BBC Ideas

BBC Ideas

Short explorations of curiosities from the recent past

Archive Takeover
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Archive Takeover

New and vintage programme picks from some of the BBC's hottest young talent

Computer Literacy Project
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Computer Literacy Project

Hundreds of full BBC programmes from the 1980s, along with working software

Educational access

Educational access

The entire digitised BBC broadcast archive is available to those in formal education in the UK

Dance Passion
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Dance Passion

Multimedia celebration of dance in its many forms, as seen through the BBC archive

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