A website about schools broadcasting
This website is all about TV and radio programmes broadcast especially for use in schools. Even though they are for schools they are not only watched & heard in schools - because they are broadcast they can be enjoyed by anybody!
This website is only about programmes in Britain at the moment. That is still a massive area with over 80 years of history, and it can only hope to scratch the surface.
The site looks at individual TV and radio series with articles based on research & a bit of analysis, plus episode guides and pictures. There are also historical, current and future broadcast schedules.
Latest Updates
Time and Tune guide begun
20th August 2010: A new page about the BBC school radio series Time and Tune, which has been running for almost 60 years with over 1,300 episodes. There is a complete term-by-term overview of the entire series, and more details about each term will be added later.
- 21st August 2010: Detailed guides to the Time and Tune units Hassebu, Flight and Over the Moon.
- 23rd August 2010: Guides to the Time and Tune units The Magic Music Shop and Sleeping Beauty.
- 28th August 2010: A guide to the Time and Tune unit Alvida and the Magician's Cape.
- 29th August 2010: Guides to Time and Tune's two adaptations of the same story: Scenes from The Wind in the Willows (1986) and The Wind in the Willows (2003).
Autumn 2010
9th August 2010: A preview of schools broadcasts next term, including (exclusively!) full broadcast dates, but few details about the actual programmes yet. The preview will be updated as more details become available.
The schedules from summer 2010 are still not on the site, but will be added soon.
Le Butin de Colombert
5th August 2010: Le Butin de Colombert (The Colombert Booty) was a French-language thriller serial for secondary schools in the early 1970s - the first and only such series made by Thames Television.
This site now has a full account of the series, including the full plot from beginning to end.
The mysterious Magic Grandad
23rd July 2010: I think I have finally identified the mysterious sixth actor to have played Magic Grandad.
Geoff Leesley provided the character's voice in the CD-Roms and E Big Book classroom resources, and I believe the same actor appears in photographs throughout the electronic resources. If you can confirm or deny, please get in touch!
Autumn 1972 Schedule
21st July 2010: A complete guide to the schools TV and radio schedules from autumn 1972, including pretty much all regional variations.
Plus a full explanation of why many of the promised ITV schools programmes failed to be broadcast this term!
