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The BBC Television Archive
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Take a trip through our collective past with the BBC archives and discover themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs.
Explore who we are and see how attitudes have changed over the years through selections from an archive which began over 70 years ago.
You can also go behind the scenes to find out how the BBC archives are maintained, uncover forgotten stories from the Written Archives and see how broadcasting has changed through the decades.
To get going, browse the collections we have released so far or visit our archive experts.
LATEST COLLECTION | Music from the Mersey
DANCING IN THE RUBBLE
44 MINUTES
BROADCAST 1982
Mersey Beat is dead: so says Liverpool's new generation of musicians.
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