BBC Music Memories
is a website designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories. Select from different genres of music or different decades.
BBC Proms
BBC Proms – Information, broadcasts and selected performances from the UK's largest classical music festival
BBC Radio 3 Discover Music
Introductions to composers, genres and key works for classical music beginners and enthusiasts
BBC Sound Effects Archive
The archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world, including sound effects from TV and Radio programs, plus 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. Listen, or design your own sounds.
BBC Sounds
BBC Sounds – Classical music programmes, concerts, documentaries and performances from BBC Radio 3.
BFI Replay (TV Archive)

Provides access to thousands of digitized videos and television programmes from the BFI National Archive (and partner organizations) to browse and enjoy, research or study.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries.
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Visit BFI Replay
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Introduction and video
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Topic based activities

BFI Screenonline
An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips, supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, thousands of stills, posters and press books and an education zone for schools.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets.
Classic FM
Classic FM – Online radio, playlists, composer guides and articles
Classical Connect
a virtual concert hall, featuring thousands of classical music recordings by independent musicians, labels, festivals and orchestras. Biographical information is provided for each composer, plus musician's or publisher's notes for each recording.
Listen to the first 3 minutes of any recording, or sign up for a free access to full-length performances, create playlists etc.
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Classical Connect
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Browse by composer
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Browse by instrument or voice
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Help page
Drama Online - National Theatre

Free access to National Theatre Collection 3, including 20 performances, from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to Roald Dahl, Wuthering Heights and plays about Generation Z.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries.
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National Theatre Collection 3
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A-Z video list
Encyclopaedia Britannica - Music Theory
Authoritative background information on composers, musical terms, instruments and music history.

European Blues Association
Incorporating the Archive of African American Music, The European Blues Association (EBA) promotes performances of African American Music in its many forms; provides participative educational activities for young people and adults; encourages research into African American Music and its cultural heritage, and in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire, facilitates study and discussion of issues related to the development of Black Music and its relationships with pop music and culture.
Naxos Music Library
Please see other sources of classical music, as this service will cease on 30th June
Music on YouTube
Performances from organisations such as the Royal Opera House, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC orchestras etc. Please search YouTube for your preferred music source or type of music:
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YouTube
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Music YouTube