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For any enquires about BBC Archives please contact: archive.services@bbc.co.uk and if you have BBC recordings which you would like to offer to the BBC please fill in this form. There are many ...
Aug 19, 2010 · Most people know that the BBC does not have a copy of every programme it has ever broadcast. The main reason for this is that when broadcasting began it was seen as an ephemeral medium, and there ...
Sep 2, 2009 · I'd like to know why we have to pay so much for copies of programme we've appeared on. The licence fee is £142.50 but I'm expected to pay £103.50 for a copy of each show I've been on. Complain ...
Aug 8, 2017 · The lone motivation for not disposing of content immediately was the potential for overseas sales, a lucrative enterprise that allowed the BBC to capitalize on its inventory in foreign markets.
The BBC Archives have contingencies in place when digitising material so that digitised copies are not accidentally overwritten, encrypted, deleted, incorrectly catalogued, incorrectly labelled, and no more than one copy of each (other than various back up spare copies and other copies at various different sites) is digitised into the BBC Digital Archives.
Most of the images are programme publicity shots, as well as people, building, technology and behind the scenes images. Material is held on a number of formats reflecting the development of camera ...
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The data in the BBC Programme Index reaches back to 1922. The Radio Times was first published in autumn 1923. Most of the listings up to 2009 are drawn from Radio Times. From 2009 onwards, the main data source is the BBC’s own digital data (drawn from “PIPS” or programme pages information).
