BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is an innovative shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. It contains over a million items, including an archive of all BBC TV and radio content dating from 2007.
BoB enables all staff and students in subscribing institutions to choose and record any scheduled broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. You can also edit programmes into clips, create playlists, embed clips into Moodle, share items via social media and generate reference citations.
Please note that our BoB licence is for educational purposes only, and only for use within the UK.
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You can find more information about using BoB on our TV for learning webpage.
Box of Broadcasts is a great resource for finding news footage.
It works best if you open up the Search box and use the Search options button just below it.
British Library Broadcast News Service
This viewing-only service, covering broadcasts from 2010 onwards, is only available in the British Library's Reading Rooms in London, so definitely a last resort.