The majority of I&A customers are either in house or independent production houses making BBC commissioned programmes. All customers will need a valid BBC charge code to use I&A services.
Research and loan of archive material including TV, Radio and Music. Intake of programme material into the archive. Music from Desktop Jukebox. Services from the Photo Library.
Find out what, where and how to make the most of I&A’s services available for Independent Production Houses making BBC commissioned programmes.
The BBC has accumulated one of the largest multi media archives in the world and has created a programme catalogue providing a rich source of metadata upon which the BBC has relied for decades. I&A are collaborating across the BBC to provide a Simple & Open environment in which we can ensure that our Digital content will be delivered both to our customers and to our audiences "whenever, wherever and however" they want it, leading to further Creative exploitation of our content.
BBC Information and Archives role is to provide to the BBC a diverse range of media asset management services which support the programme making process and which ensure that our valuable content including; television programmes, radio programmes and photographs ('media assets'), are stored and made accessible for research, reuse and heritage purposes.
Information for BBC content producers
Information about the BBC for the general public
BBC Archive projects and collections
The BBC's broadcasting history and details of archive collections
Selection of classic full length BBC TV programmes
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