English Study Texts
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started9th Sep
1991
ended21st Jan
1993
2 school years
episodes39
duration30 mins
subject
📚English
age rangeAge 13-16
languageenIn English
English Study Texts is a BBC schools radio series from the 1990s, covering English for secondary school pupils.
- replaced Books, Plays, Poems
- dramatisations of novels and plays that are popular in GCSE and Standard Grade syllabuses, each in four half hour episodes, plus a fifth introductory episode.
- Autumn 1991: Under Goliath by Peter Carter & Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
- Spring 1992: Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury & Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Autumn 1992: Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty & The Friends by Rosa Guy
- Spring 1993: Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse & Come to Mecca by Farrukh Dhondy (3 episode drama + introduction)
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