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| New 27 Mar 2013 New programme added to site, including links to listen to all the episodes and a note about the unbroadcast episode | |
| Counting Songs | Radio |
| New 27 Mar 2013 New programme added to site | |
| Greek Myths | Radio |
| New 27 Mar 2013 New programme added to site | |
| Stories for Collective Worship | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Added end date as there have been no new episodes for a couple of years | |
| Stimulus Sounds | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Updated latest repeat date - series is due to be repeated in the summer term | |
| Music for Dance | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Added episode list, spreadsheet of all broadcasts (1995-2011) and correst dates & episode count | |
| Music Extra | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Dates & episode count fixed | |
| Meet the Authors | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Latest repeat date added | |
| Maths Challenge | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Latest repeat date added | |
| Listen and Play | Radio |
| 27 Mar 2013 Episode list added, dates & episode count fixed | |
| Cho Luath 's a Ghabhas
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| 27 Mar 2013 Added basic write-up, episode list & latest repeat dates | |
| The Song Tree | Radio |
| 26 Mar 2013 Lots more pamphlet covers from the 1980s & 90s added, plus the brand new unit from spring 2013 | |
| Tony Robinson's Local History Search (from How We Used to Live) | TV |
| 26 Mar 2013 Title screen added | |
| The Playboy of the Western World (from Drama (ITV)) | TV |
| 26 Mar 2013 Pamphlet cover added | |
| From Scotland's Past | Radio |
| 26 Mar 2013 Teacher's notes cover added | |
| Politics in Action | TV |
| 26 Mar 2013 Title screen added | |
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The Scene Project
24th August 2012: Scene is one of the highest-profile, longest-running, most diverse and significant schools programmes of all time. It has produced some absolutely remarkable plays, serials and documentary films for teenagers, many of which were later repeated for an adult audience.
When this website started five years ago it included a brief overview and episode guide to Scene with a promise of more detail to follow, but nothing did follow... until now! There is now a separate page covering (pretty much) every single episode of Scene ever - that's well over 300 new pages. The content includes...
- episode descriptions (but only for about 100 episodes so far, there is a lot of work still to do!)
- excerpts from the teacher's notes giving insight into the educational aims the programme hoped to achieve, or background to the production
- credits (so far, only the writer credits for the dramas, and there are 3 or 4 whose writers I don't know)
- the archive status of every episode made prior to 1975, as everything from 1975 onwards safely exists in the BBC archive. There are 19 "missing" episodes of Scene from the 1960s and 70s, and 2 more where I am not quite sure whether they exist or not.
- a complete list of all broadcasts for schools, by term, for every single episode without fail, including repeats as part of other series like Lifeschool and broadcasts on Teachers' TV. Plus notes about all evening repeats for an adult audience
- video clips for all episodes for which they are legally available from the copyright holders! The BBC has released quite a lot of clips from 1990s episodes of Scene online.
- plus all of the usual details of episode length, exact first & last broadcast dates, companies, related programmes and links to the IMDB, Wikipedia, BFI & BBC websites for every episode which is covered there.
Start on the Scene page to see everything, or explore the Scene dramas and Scene documentaries separately.
And...
...because the 300+ Scene updates have pushed everything else off of the Latest Site Updates list, here are some of the other recent changes that you may have missed...
The Song Tree, Time and Tune and Music Workshop episode guides were updated for 2012-13. This will be Time and Tune's 62nd year of broadcasting, and all 62 are documented here!
Links were added to online video clips from some older ITV Schools series from Scotland - Past and Present (from the 1960s), What is a Town? (from the 1970s), and Time to Think (from the 1980s) - plus The Complete Cosmos (from the 1990s) and Space Files (from the 2000s). The BBC has also (basically) put 30 episodes of the lovely Gaelic infants series Baile Mhuilinn online.
All of the remaining new programmes shown on BBC2 during spring and summer 2012 have been added, such as Ask Lara, The Approximate History of Maths and Seeking Refuge. So the site is still the most comprehensive possible directory of schools programmes broadcast from 1924 right up to the present.
I have also sorted out details, especially dates & episode counts, for some older series including The Music Box, Tìr a' Chiùil and Freadaidh am Feadan.
Plus I have been able to sort out age ranges for lots of recent BBC Schools TV series (bizzarely, the BBC keep the target age ranges of their schools programmes top secret these days, just describing them as "primary" or "secondary"), added pictures for some older series such as Issues, Modern China and Reviewing the Landscape, and more...
You can tell it's the summer holidays!
