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Archive Access for Non-Commercial Use

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Archives manages one of the world's largest multimedia archives - find out ways you can access and research ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Archive content.

Curated extracts from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s huge content archive.
  • To find listings information, people, dates or times of a particular programme, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Programme Listings is a searchable database of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s broadcasts from 1923-2009 derived from the Radio Times magazine listings.
  • The British Film Institute (BFI) provides public, on-request access to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Television Archive. It provides research and viewing services but does not supply copies of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Television content.
  • The British Library Sound Archive provides public on-request access to, and listening facilities for, a collection of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ radio recordings. It cannot supply copies of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ material.
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Written Archives

    The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Written Archives Centre contains thousands of files, scripts and working papers from all parts of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, since the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s formation in 1922.
  • A commercial, fee paying service which licenses ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ copyright images for editorial use in digital and print media. This service is not available to members of the public for private use.
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Contributor Access Service

    People who have made a substantial contribution to a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ programme, either as a featured or named contributor, may be able to purchase a copy for personal use.
  • Some of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SFX collection is now available for personal, educational or research purposes. For commercial use you can access and license the whole collection through a third party.
  • Educational access

    The entire digitised ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ broadcast archive is now available to teachers, schools and students in formal education in the UK. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Teach has information on how it can be accessed.
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Learning license full-length programmes for educational purposes. A number of providers offer access to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ broadcasts for UK HE and FE institutions in possession of an ERA licence, including BoB National, Planet eStream and ClickView.
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Distribution sells radio and TV clips via the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Motion Gallery library sales service, in partnership with Getty Images.
  • Non-Commercial Use

    How to use ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ content, including whole programmes, clips, photos and content from bbc.co.uk.
  • Wiped, Missing and Lost

    Find out why the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has not got a copy of every single piece of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ content.

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