In 2018, the BBC made freely available for non-commercial use around 16,000 of its sound effects recordings. A few hundred come from known locations around the UK, and most of those have been presented here in a sound map. All recordings © BBC.
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BBC DESCRIPTION: Selling tomatoes, Portobello Road street market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Selling tights, Portobello Road street market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Selling daffodils, Portobello Road street market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Singing beggar, Portobello Road street market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Selling glass cutting tools, Portobello Road street market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Selling toys, Portobello Road street market.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Royal Albert Hall: atmosphere, with tuning and fountain at 1'09", applause for leader at 1'27", applause for conductor, 1'48" quiet atmosphere.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Royal Festival Hall: applause, at 14" atmosphere, settling down, score rustles, at 25" quartet tuning quiet.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Women's darts match in London pub.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Busy lunchtime in a public house in the West End of London, 1972.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Atmosphere in workmen's cafe. London area.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Noisy French restaurant, in London with English speech.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Kitchen of busy Chinese restaurant, London.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Harrods Food Hall, with voices, cash tills and occasional meat slicer.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Billingsgate Fish Market atmosphere.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Covent Garden Market: lorries arriving, voices, movement.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Covent Garden Market: unloading, quiet voices, trolleys in fruit and vegetable hall.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Covent Garden Market: atmosphere, dedicated hall, seller in foreground.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Market: London street market, 1976.