English Literature (England)

📻BBC Schools Radio

companyBBC

started25th Sep 1929

endedJun 1937

8 school years

duration25 mins

subject 📚English

languageenIn English

English Literature (England) is a BBC schools radio series from the 1920s and 1930s, covering English.

including units such as Stories and Story-telling in Prose and Verse, Children in Books, Delight in Books, Some Books I Like and More Books I Like
a separate English literature series ran in Scotland at the same time
preceded by Some Books Worth Reading
replaced The Foundations of English Poetry

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