31K views · 181 reactions | #OnThisDay 1985: The Observer newspaper published allegations that BBC staff appointments were regularly vetted by the security service MI5. | BBC Archive | Facebook

140K views · 1.1K reactions | #OnThisDay1985: Time for some 80s springtime fashion now. Yes, that's Stewart Copeland from the Police on the couch as well. No, we don't know why. For more great fashion archive, you can visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/fashion/zvss7nb | BBC Archive | Facebook

#OnThisDay 1985: "bellicose and jingoistic nonsense" Barry Norman was having none of the mid-eighties action movie craze. | BBC Archive