Landmarks: Geography Postcards
Geography Postcards is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 2000s, covering geography for primary school pupils.
Highlights from previous Landmarks units, re-edited into a sequence of short clips on a particular topic, presented as if part of an illustrated picture postcard.
Sequences appear from the units on Coping with the Climate, Follow the River Severn, Portrait of Britain, World Environmental Changes and Pakistan and Its People, all with the original presentation and graphics.
Each programme end with a question for viewers to consider on the topic, headed "over to you..." and reminiscent of the Landmarks programmes with that title broadcast in earlier decades.
Logo from the end titles
Over to You prompt
Primary Geography
From 2003 this unit was repeated as part of Landmarks' replacement series Primary Geography. The Primary Geography opening titles were added to the beginning of each episode in an entirely inconsistent way, sometimes preceding the original Landmarks opening titles, sometimes replacing them, and sometimes absent with only the Landmarks titles seen.
Landmarks
Primary Geography
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | People, Places and Weather | 28 Feb 2001 |
| 2. | Rivers and Water | 7 Mar 2001 |
| 3. | City and Countryside | 14 Mar 2001 |
| 4. | World Environmental Change | 21 Mar 2001 |
| 5. | Distant Localities: Pakistan | 28 Mar 2001 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-01 | Spring 2001 | Wednesday, 11:50am | BBC2 | from 28 Feb | ||||
| Summer 2001 | Tuesday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | from 5 Jun | |||||
| 2001-02 | Autumn 2001 | Monday, 11:50am | BBC2 | from 10 Sep | ||||
| Summer 2002 | Tuesday, 11:50am | BBC2 | from 21 May | |||||
| 2002-03 | Autumn 2002 | Tuesday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | Primary Geography, from 26 Nov | ||||
| 2003-04 | Autumn 2003 | Monday, 11:10am | Tuesday, 10:50am+ | BBC2 | Primary Geography, 29 Sep & 7 Oct only | |||
| Summer 2004 | Monday, 10:30am | Friday, 11:40am | BBC2 | Primary Geography, 26 Apr & 11 Jun only | ||||
| 2005-06 | Spring 2006 | Friday, 10:50am | BBC2 | Primary Geography, from 3 Mar | ||||
| 2006-07 | Summer 2007 | Tuesday, 10:50am | BBC2 | Primary Geography, from 5 Jun | ||||
| 2007-08 | Autumn 2007 | Monday, 11:10am | BBC2 | Primary Geography, from 10 Sep | ||||
| Summer 2008 | Tuesday, 1:10pm | BBC2 | Primary Geography, 13 May only |
CBBC Channel
Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes (this list may be incomplete). As part of Landmarks:
- 2001-02: Summer 2002 (from Tuesday 7th May 2002, 10:20am)
- 2002-03: Autumn 2002 (from Monday 18th November 2002, 10:00am)
And as part of Primary Geography:
- 2003-04: Autumn 2003 (Thursday 11th September 2003 from 10:10am) & Spring 2004 (from Friday 30th January 2004, 12:40pm)
- 2004-05: Autumn 2004 (Thursday 16th September 2004 from 9:00am) & Summer 2005 (Friday 17th June 2005 from 9:20am)
- 2005-06: Autumn 2005 (from Friday 2nd December 2005, 10:00am) & Spring 2006 (Thursday 9th March 2006 from 9:30am)
- 2006-07: Autumn 2006 (from Thursday 21st September 2006, 9:40am)
- 2007-08: Spring 2008 (from Wednesday 16th January 2008, 12:55pm)
Credits
| Narrator | Ajay Chhabra |
| Producer | Michelle Jones |
Resources
There was a Video Plus Pack available.
Links
Related programmes
- Primary Geography: Postcards from Kenya
- Primary Geography: Postcards from BangladeshLater, new units using the 'postcard' concept to collect short clips for classroom use.
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