Watch 450 vintage gems from the BBC’S new iplayer archive

More than 450 programmes from the BBC’S archives are now available to watch on iplayer, including vintage footage that’s never been repeated. The earliest clips show footage from the second half of 1946, when the BBC resumed broadcasting following World War 2.

Other highlights include interviews with World War One veterans filmed in the 1960s; shows from David Attenborough’s early years at the BBC; and documentaries from long-running science show Horizon.

There are also interviews by three giants of the chat show – David Frost, Terry Wogan and Michael Parkinson - and much-loved quiz shows What’s My Line?, Call My Bluff and Ask the Family.

Computeractive readers may have fond memories of 1982’s The Computer Programme ( www.snipca. com/25708), which asked the probing question ‘What can computers do for us?’.

All shows can be found in a new iplayer section called ‘From the Archives’ ( www. snipca.com/25699). You can watch highlights from the home page, or browse by A-Z and Recent. The content, available without extra cost to licence-fee payers, can be watched on PCS, phones, tablets and web-connected ‘smart’ TVS.

More content will be added in the coming years, the BBC said, as it tries to take on Tv-streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. In January, the BBC’S director general Lord Hall said he wanted the iplayer to be the UK’S top online TV service by 2020.