West Brom in China, 1978

"Impressive, isn't it, but I mean, you've seen one wall, you've seen them all"

Britain's 'cheapest family car', 1959

Sixty years ago, £494 would buy you a brand new Ford Popular

Enter the BBC Archive trivia vault

Have a go at the greatest telly and radio quiz you never knew you needed

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3 things we love right now

Kraftwerk on Tomorrow's World, 1975

The German electro-boffins demonstrate a strange new form of music

Hop-pickers return to Kent, 1972

East-enders revisit the fields where they used to work

Programme Index

Discover 9,867,971 listings and 220,747 playable programmes spanning 98 years of BBC broadcasting

Best bits: Staycations

Visit Oldham, 1976

The perfect staycation?

Britain's backside, 1965

"Look at the backside of Britain, the Britain that most of us know"

Wakes Week holiday, 1957

Blackpool staycation for mill town workers captured in beautiful black and white

Hop picking holiday in Kent, 1948

Harvesting hops is hard graft, but for these hardy souls it's a holiday for all the family

Pick and mix

Gaming

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start

Life on the farm

A bumper crop of farming clips harvested from the BBC Archive

The joy of sets

Jazz up your video call backgrounds, with this collection of BBC sets

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Computer Literacy Project

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

iPlayer archive

Classic drama boxsets, music memories, brilliant documentaries and much more

History of the BBC

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Archive Services

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