BBC Sound Effects Libraries

Create with a legacy of sound at your fingertips. The iconic BBC Sound Effects Archive delivers a treasure trove of historic sounds and nature recordings from around the world to spark creativity - captured by BBC's top sound engineers and field recordists from the late 1960ʼs on.

BBC Complete

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BBC Nature

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BBC Historical

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BBC Original Series 1-60

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BBC Original Series 61-166

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Sounds

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African Buffalo. CU Sounds Of Buffalo Charging A Pride Of Lions In Defence Of An Injured Male; Hoof-Beats & Grunts; Lions Snarl & Growl As They Are Forced To Retreat. Rufous-Tailed Starlings Call & Alarm Call, Cricket Chorus & Other Birds In Background. A

Animals · Wild

Rajasthan Musicians. Drumming By Musicians. Also Sounds From A Reed Instrument. Singer Joins Music. Ends With Brief Applause. N.B. Exact Location Of This Recording Is Unknown. Village, Rajasthan, India Humans: Song, Dance And Music

Voices · Singing

Blackbird, With Dawn Woodland Atmosphere Of Song Thrush, Woodpigeon And Jackdaw In Background

Birds · Songbird

Greece: School Playground, Very Noisy With Children Shouting & Playing, Distant Traffic, Bell Rings & They Go In

Ambience · School

Start, Run Up Engines, Taxi - Interior. (Prop-Jet Airliner.)

Aircraft · Jet

Bornean Orangutan. CU Energetic Kiss-Squeak Alarm Calls From Female. Amusing Raspberry Sounds 0M37S. Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan Province, Borneo, Indonesia

Animals · Wild

Soldiers, Constant Marching On Soft Surface. (Troops Wearing Studded Boots.)

Foley · Feet

Girls Screaming In Street, With Traffic And Horns - 1966 (63C, Processed.)

Crowds · Misc

Egyptian Vulture. B/G Piping Calls From Vulture 0M28S, 0M57S & 2M21S. Drone Of Buzzing Flies. Some Calls From Other Bird Species. Occasional Wingbeats. Janub Dump, Muscat, Oman

Birds · Tropical

Approach Of Express Freight Train With Signal Received And Acknowledged

Trains · Misc

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