Landmarks: The Caribbean
The Caribbean is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s & 2000s, covering geography for primary school pupils.
Exploring life and physical geography of two specific islands in the Caribbean - Dominica and Trinidad - meeting different communities of people with the help of the local radio station.
The unit is often billed as The Caribbean Islands. The footage from this unit, enhanced with new presentation in British Sign Language, was used for a unit of Signed Landmarks later in 1998.
Dominica
Trinidad
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Landscape | 12 Jan 1998 |
| 2. | People | 19 Jan 1998 |
| 3. | Work | 26 Jan 1998 |
| 4. | Climate | 2 Feb 1998 |
| 5. | Buildings | 9 Feb 1998 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-98 | Spring 1998 | Monday, 11:40am | Friday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 12 Jan | |||
| 1998-99 | Spring 1999 | Monday, 11:40am | Friday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 22 Feb | |||
| 1999-2000 | Spring 2000 | Friday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | from 3 Mar | ||||
| 2000-01 | Summer 2001 | Wednesday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | from 6 Jun | ||||
| 2004-05 | Summer 2005 | Tuesday, 10:30am | BBC2 | from 10 May | ||||
| 2007-08 | Summer 2008 | Thursday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 10 Apr |
Learning Zone
The unit was also broadcast overnight for easy recording as part of the Learning Zone broadcasts on BBC2, with "audetel", audio description for visually impaired viewers:
- 1997-98: Summer 1998 (Thursday 28th May 1998 from 2:00am)
- 1998-99: Spring 1999 (Thursday 25th February 1999 from 2:00am)
CBBC Channel
Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes (this list may be incomplete):
- 2001-02: Summer 2002 (from Monday 24 June 2002, 10:20am)
- 2002-03: Autumn 2002 (from Monday 9 September 2002, 10:20am) & Spring 2003 (from Monday 13 January 2003, 10:20am)
- 2004-05: Spring 2005 (from Monday 17 January 2005, 9:50am)
- 2005-06: Autumn 2005 (Thursday 20 October 2005 from 9:00am)
- 2006-07: Autumn 2006 (from Monday 16 October 2006, 9:00am)
Credits
| Narrator | Angie Greaves |
| Directors | Mark Alexander Holness Melanie Brown (Dominica) |
| Executive Producer | Clare Elstow |
| Producer | Mark Alexander Holness |
Resources
There were teacher's notes a Video Plus Pack and resource pack available.
Links
Related programmes
- Primary Geography (radio)Complementary radio series describing life on another Caribbean island, St Lucia.
- Signed LandmarksThe films from this unit presented in British Sign Language
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