BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON, first broadcast in 1956, was the third in David Attenborough’s groundbreaking ZOO QUEST television natural history series. In these programmes he pioneered techniques in programme...
Financial man is laid bare in this series from 1964 exploring how the City of London’s great institutions operated in the days before the markets went global. From the floor of the old Stock Exchange to...
On 5 July 1948, the National Health Service was launched with the proud expectation that it would make the UK the ‘envy of the world’. This collection of programme extracts, party political broadcasts,...
At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...
As part of the Radio 3 arts programme broadcast on 12 November 1970, critic Michael Billington speaks to theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller about some of the staging difficulties for a production of...
The BBC Archive celebrates the life and work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th Century’s greatest artists. This collection is inspired by the retrospective of Bacon’s work at Tate Britain. Complete...
A collection of extracts and complete BBC radio and television programmes illustrating the roots of British working class traditions, real working class heroes, and how lives and attitudes have changed over...
In the fourth programme of the series, Doris Langley Moore explores how outfits for formal events are planned to call attention to joy, grief or glory. She also looks at how ceremonial robes are merely once...
Five-part radio series in which famous actors talk about the character of Hamlet. In episode five, broadcast on The Third Programme on 16 May 1954, John Gielgud reflects on a 25-year association with the...
Radio programme. 45-year old actor Edward Fox, having taken on the part for a Young Vic production, tells presenter Brian Matthew how it feels to play a character who should be portrayed by an actor closer...
You are currently searching in Find DVD. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '"BBC Archive"' in All fields.
Learning on Screen