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Roald Dahl's writing routine, 1982

"For a quarter of my waking hours, I am completely immersed in a dotty world of fantasy"

Amid the VHS goldrush, dodgy copies of ET are doing the rounds

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

Deke Duncan's Radio 77 broadcasts to the smallest audience in the country

A year before the Wall's fall, the actor returns to the city of his birth

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

The perfect staycation?

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

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

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

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

A bumper crop of farming clips harvested from the BBC Archive

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

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

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

Discover the BBC's unique and fascinating story, decade-by-decade

Request BBC archive material for research, educational or other purposes