English File: The Animated Epics
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
started23rd Apr
1999
ended1st Jun
2000
last rpt18th Jan
2008
10 school years
episodes8
duration30 mins
subject
📚English
age rangeAge 13-16
languageen/enmIn English & In Middle English
The Animated Epics is an English and Middle English-language unit of the BBC schools TV series English File from the 1990s and 2000s, covering English for secondary school pupils.
- adaptations of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales (in 2 episodes) and Moby Dick
- originally broadcast for a general audience at Christmas 1998 and Easter 1999
- including a version of the Canterbury Tales episodes in Middle English
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