Landmarks: Pakistan and Its People
Pakistan and Its People is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s & 2000s, covering geography for primary school pupils.
Documentaries about life in modern Pakistan, looking at the lives of people who live in dfferent parts of the country.
A version of this unit narrated in Urdu was broadcast separately, and clips from the unit were used for a Geography Postcards programme several years later.
Episode List
# | Title | Broadcast |
---|---|---|
1. | Introduction to Pakistan | 11 Jan 1993 |
2. | The Swat Valley | 18 Jan 1993 |
3. | A Village in the Punjab | 25 Jan 1993 |
4. | A Family in Lahore | 1 Feb 1993 |
5. | The Indus Citilization | 27 Mar 1995 |
Broadcasts
Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1992-93 | Spring 1993 | Monday, 1:40pm | Thursday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 11 Jan | |||
1994-95 | Spring 1995 | Monday, 1:25pm | Thursday, 11:30am | BBC2 | from 27 Feb | |||
1996-97 | Spring 1997 | Monday, 10:30am then 1:25pm | Thursday, 11:35am | BBC2 | from 6 Jan (audetel) then 10 Feb | |||
2000-01 | Summer 2001 | Tuesday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | from 24 Apr | ||||
2001-02 | Summer 2002 | Friday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | from 19 Apr | ||||
2006-07 | Summer 2007 | Tuesday, 10:30am | BBC2 | from 24 Apr |
Nightschool TV
Also broadcast overnight on BBC2 for block recording as part of Nightschool TV and the Learning Zone:
- 1995-96: Spring 1996 - Tuesday 16th January 1996 from 2:00am
- 1996-97: Summer 1997 - Thursday 22nd May 1997 from 2:00am (audetel)
- 1998-99: Spring 1999 - Wednesday 24th February 1999 from 2:00am (audetel)
Several broadcasts from 1997-1999 included "audetel", audio description for visually impaired viewers.
CBBC Channel
Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes (this list may be incomplete):
- 2002-03: Autumn 2002 (from Monday 2nd September 2002, 10:20am)
- 2003-04: Summer 2004 (Friday 18th June 2004 from 9:00am)
- 2004-05: Spring 2005 (from Monday 24th January 2005, 9:50am)
Credits
Presenter | Shahnaz Pakravan |
Producer & director | Peter M. Evans |
Resources
Teacher's Notes
Video Plus Pack
An 80-minute video containing the original four episodes.
Fact Finder Book
Links
Related programmes
- Landmarks in UrduUrdu language version
- Primary History: Indus CivilisationReplacement unit for the history content, made over a decade later
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