This is bloody awesome!
Is this new? I remember when they did a huge dump like 5-10 years ago but if it’s been updated or cooler now, this is good news. Even if not, this is a great reminder that the archive still exists. I had totally forgotten about it, myself.
This actually sounds like a challenge, BBC. Challenge accepted 
I am pretty sure the article is new, the collection may be old.
Additionally, I also saw the commercial use bit and was like, “Watch me you limey bastards!” (No offense to our local UK mad cxnts).
I’m certain they wouldn’t even be able to tell if you glitched the samples up.
Oh for sure. I highly doubt the BBC would even aggressively pursue a copyright from their SFX archive, it’s probably like one old nerdy dude running that whole show lol.
I wonder how big the whole archive is. I’d love to scrape it or something but it’s probably absolutely massive, and I don’t want the BBC up my ass if you know what I mean
So far I don’t like that the .wav files make you download a .zip, that seems like an oversight. MP3s seem normal but of course they’re lossy. Guess I’m going full-on lossy, since I don’t feel like extracting large quantities of random shit that I intend to download
Probably going to make a killer riser pack with these. For personal use, of course
Yea, that is kind of annoying. I’ll be going the .wav route cuz hardware, oh well. It’ll keep me from over downloading.
“personal use” wink wink
Did you see the mixer? You can apparently slap a whole bunch of shit together and download it as its own file (or bulk download MP3s, that’s going to be my jam for sure). That’s a pretty nice touch for really obscuring the source. They’re doing the work for us 
I just did 50 at a time, so the maximum must be pretty high. Holy shit, this is cool
Oh wow. No. I haven’t had time to dive in yet. That’s awesome though. Thanks.
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Hey, BBC, I’m using your samples commercially. Please send your most handsome lawyers.