Collections and Databases
TELEVISION AND RADIO
We provide a broad range of services and resources relating to UK television and radio for use in education.
The TRILT database includes a continuously updated Electronic Programme Guide to all UK TV and Radio broadcasts and is also an index to the over 450,000 hours of off-air television and radio that we have recorded for access by members since 1998. BoB is a shared service providing streamed access to current and archived broadcasts from over fifty channels. TVTiP is a unique index to the London region TVTimes listings magazine covering the years from 1955 to 1985. The This Week (1956-1992) database provides a wealth of contextual information about the groundbreaking ITV current affairs series.
Thousands of programmes from the Independent Radio Sharing Archive made between 1973 and 1995 are also being streamed online, while the Radio Research Database aims to carry a record of all current radio-centred research in the UK.
TRILT - Broadcast Listings
The Television & Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
Comprehensive listings for all television and radio programmes broadcast in the UK since 2001, search, setup custom alert emails and request DVD copies under licence.
Off-Air Service
Since 1998 the BUFVC has recorded and retained UK television and radio. Currently more than 65,000 hours are kept each year. Copies of these programmes can be ordered online by BUFVC members with an ERA licence.
This Week
The This Week database is a record of the entire production history of the series. It has been enhanced by the contributions of expert researchers and information shared with the project by FremantleMedia and used with their permission.
TVTiP ᭼ TV Times Index
The TVTimes Project 1955-1985 provides unique online access to the listings of the London Edition of the TVTimes from September 1955 - March 1985. TVTiP allows you to search for programmes, production staff and performers.
Channel 4 Press Packs
Channel 4’s weekly packs, the brainchild of Press Officer Chris Griffin-Beale, were the most comprehensive digest of programme information that any UK broadcaster supplied to the press. This site is a tribute to his pioneering work.
Independent Radio
The resources bring together archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996. All the resources are delivered in collaboration with Bournemouth University’s Centre for Broadcasting History who obtained funding and conducted the digitisation and cataloguing.
NEWS ON SCREEN
The world’s leading resource for the study of newsreels and cinemagazines. Find out what made the news in the 20th century using our database of 180,000 cinemagazine & newsreel stories (1910-83) linked to production documents & films.
News on Screen
Newsreels were a regular feature of British cinema programmes between 1910 and 1979. For the first twenty years of their existence they were silent, with titles to introduce and describe each item, and accompanied by live music. Discover how the news hit the screen and take your study further with our wide range of resources including histories, case studies & website links.
Inter-University History Film Consortium
The InterUniversity History Film Consortium (IUHFC) pioneered the study and use of film in history. Founded in 1968 by John Grenville and Nicholas Pronay at the University of Leeds, the IUHFC made sixteen films, all accompanied by detailed booklets produced by historians such as John Ramsden, Tony Aldgate and Philip Taylor.
UPITN
UPITN was a major global television news agency. It had an extensive network of foreign bureaux, with crews filming events and people to supply broadcast news companies with material. In the 1970s, along with Visnews, it was the key player in international newsgathering, providing content that has informed our collective visual memory of that era.
Roundabout
Over 600 Technicolor cinemagazine stories from the series Roundabout (1962-1974) are now freely available thanks to the British Film Institute. Produced by the Central Office of Information to showcase British manufacturing and promote the ethos of the Commonwealth, this eclectic mix of official opening ceremonies and factory production lines bears glamorous witness to a Britain projected exclusively to cinema audiences in Asia.
David Lean & Gaumont Sound News
The history of one of the earliest British sound newsreels, Gaumont Sound News (1929-1933). David Lean (1908-1991) was one of Britain’s greatest film directors. He captured the public imagination with films like BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) and his visionary technique influenced a generation of directors, including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Women's Work in British Film and Television
In partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Leeds, De Montfort University, and BECTU
This research project delves into the contributions of women within the British film and television industries spanning 1933 to 1989.
Shakespeare Database
This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope, was regularly updated and currently holds over 10,000 records dating from the 1890s - The largest in the world!