James Cameron interview, 1971

"Skepticism is the finest quality anybody can have"

The state of Britain's roads, 1958

"It's really no joke - this business of traffic jams"

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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

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, 1977

"It proved we can be equal with men, not only on Earth but in space as well"

Limerick football shambles, 1983

A tale of one city, two teams, one ground... and a chicken franchise

Programme Index

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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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