BBC discovery pages
Below is a discovery of all BBC releases for you to list just the area of interest that you may want. It is divided by catagory and then a link of which format I have at least one item.BBC - Main catalogueBBC Radio Enterprises Ltd and BBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessors of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1968 and 1979 respectively, they were a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd.The items shown here are from the "main" BBC Records and Tapes library covering a wide secletion of genres from themes, comedy dramas and others, depending on which format you have selected. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Main catalogue |  Singles | 12 inches | Cassingles | CD singles | Albums | Cassettes | CDs | Videos | DVDs | Blu-rays | 4k Ultra-HDs | Books | |||||
BBC -BBC records released to the Australian public. The labels and catalogue numbers are mostly different to the UK versions. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Australian |  Singles | CD singles | Albums | ||||||||||||||
| BBC - Canadian | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Dutch | Singles | Albums | CDs | ||||||||||||||
| BBC - French | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - German | Singles | 12 inches | Albums | CDs | |||||||||||||
| BBC - Irish | Singles | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Italian | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - New Zealand | Singles | Albums | |||||||||||||||
| BBC - Polish | Singles | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Portuguese | Singles | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - South African | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Spanish | Singles | Albums | CDs | ||||||||||||||
| BBC - US | Singles | Albums | |||||||||||||||
BBC - BBC Radio Collection and BBC AudioA selection of archive collections from across the BBC. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - BBC Radio Collection and BBC Audio |  Cassettes | CDs | |||||||||||||||
| BBC - BBC Radio Collection-ISBN | CDs | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - BBCBBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessor of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1979 was a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd. The items shown here are either boxed sets or imports of items from the main BBC Records and Tapes library covering a wide secletion of genres from themes, comedy dramas and others, depending on which format you have selected. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - BBC | Singles | Albums | Cassettes | CDs | |||||||||||||
BBC - Super BeeBBBC sub label for rock/pop music. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - BEEB |  Singles | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - Super BeeB-BEDPBBC sub label for rock/pop music.Much of this one relates to Radio 1 related records. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - BEEB-BEDP | Albums | Cassettes | |||||||||||||||
BBC - Super BeeB-BELPBBC sub label for rock/pop music.Much of the output will have some links to BBC TV Top of the Pops. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - BEEB-BELP | Albums | Cassettes | |||||||||||||||
BBC - Super BeeB-BEMPBBC sub label for rock/pop music. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - BEEB-BEMP | Albums | Cassettes | |||||||||||||||
BBC - Transcription Service - CNBBC Transcription Services (before BBC Transcription Service (no "s"), later BBC Transcription and today BBC Radio International) discs were only made available to overseas radio stations for broadcast purposes and were not made available for sale to the general public. However, in the early 90s many international BBC libraries sold their stocks to the public. Limitation: "Typically BBC Transcription Services pressed 100 copies of each disc only with instructions to the overseas radio network to destroy the disc at the end of the licence period."Note that the genre of shows available via this label is as wide as the main BBC labels available to view here. Also, records have been issued home and abroad for many years (the oldest I have comes from the 1950's but they have been issued for much longer!) Unlike most catalogues of records, each side of the BBC Transcription disc has it's own catalogue number - side two normally is one number higher than side one! | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Transcription Service - CN |  Singles | Albums | CDs | ||||||||||||||
| BBC - Radioplay Music - SRP / TSRP | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Radioplay Music - TAIR | Albums | CDs | |||||||||||||||
| BBC - Radioplay Music (Best of Radioplay) - RPLA | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Radioplay Music (Sigs and Sessions) - SNS | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC recorded programs permanent library | Albums | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Transcription Service - Others | 10 inches | 16 inches | Albums | CDs | |||||||||||||
BBC - Language-OPBBC sub label for foreign language records.This was the first BBC label available to the public to purchase starting in the early 1960's. To start with, you could only purchase these direct from the BBC. There were shows aired where listeners could follow the programme on the Radio (usually foreign language training shows) and then purchase the record and separate book to accompany it. These could be kept afterwards to continue their home learning. Later the shows were also recorded for television and the records as well as the books became more widely available in the shops. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Language-OP |  Singles | Albums | Cassettes | Books | |||||||||||||
BBC - English Traditional songs - English by RadioAnother foreign territories catalogue to help teach them English. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - English Traditional songs - ETS |  Singles | 10 inches | |||||||||||||||
| BBC - English by radio | Singles | 10 inches | Books | ||||||||||||||
| BBC - Readings from English literature-RFEL | 10 inches | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - Pickwick-PWKSYou will find all the US Pickwick label versions linked at the parent company Pickwick International, Inc. Pickwick Records quickly established itself as the market leader in budget-price LPs thanks to its innovative business practices. It was the first UK company to put in place exclusive licensing deals with the major record companies (for many years it was the official budget reissue outlet for labels such as RCA - since 1973 - and CBS.) | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Pickwick-PWKS |  Cassettes | CDs | |||||||||||||||
BBC - PrestigeThese releases were released at a time when the BBC labels were in decline. They contain releases from many middle of the road artists. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Prestige-PREC |  Albums | Cassettes | CDs | ||||||||||||||
BBC - Prestige-PRIMThese releases were released at a time when the BBC labels were in decline. They contain releases from many middle of the road artists. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Prestige-PRIM | Albums | Cassettes | CDs | ||||||||||||||
BBC - Prestige-PRSTThese releases were released at a time when the BBC labels were in decline. They contain releases from many middle of the road artists. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Prestige-PRST | Albums | Cassettes | CDs | ||||||||||||||
BBC - Roundabout-RBTA series based on BBC radio and TV broadcasts, covering a range of subject matter including children's programmes, comedy, dialogue and incidental music. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Roundabout-RBT |  Albums | Cassettes | |||||||||||||||
BBC - Gold Label-REGLA subset of records released as the "Gold Label". | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Gold Label-REGL |  Albums | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - Study-RESRA series of LP discs based on BBC Schools Radio Series and general service programmes relevant to work in primary or secondary schools and in colleges. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Study-RESR |  Albums | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - Sound effectsNever issued to the public, these records were used by the BBC across the land to add sound effects to their TV and Radio programmes. All EC records were recorded in mono. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Sound effects-EC |  Singles | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - Sound effectsNever issued to the public, these records were used by the BBC across the land to add sound effects to their TV and Radio programmes. All ECS records were recorded in stereo. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Sound effects-ECS |  Singles | 78s | 10 inches | ||||||||||||||
BBC - Sound effects-MPNever issued to the public, these records were used by the BBC across the land to add music and sound effects to their TV and Radio programmes. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Sound effects-MP |  Singles | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Sound effects-NH | Singles | ||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Sound effects-RFLP or SRMK | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Sound effects-SFX | CDs | ||||||||||||||||
BBC - Other BBCOccasionally the BBC released material which didn't follow the normal catalogue number sequences. The few of these which exist are normally one off's never to be repeated! The main exception is the FAME records found in the albums section. | |||||||||||||||||
| BBC - Other BBC |  Singles | 12 inches | Cassingles | CD singles | Albums | Cassettes | CDs | Postcards | Posters | Magazines | |||||||
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Last modified: 2022-05-28
Last modified: 2022-05-28