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1st February 2025: Coverage of the long-running BBC TV series Ulster in Focus, typically seen only in Northern Ireland but currently undergoing a national retrospective on Saturday nights on BBC Four!

The page has an overview of the series and full details of the broadcsts for schools (in Northern Ireland only) over 35 years. More to be added soon including changes over the decades and links to online videos on iPlayer and BBC Rewind.

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17th January 2025: A full guide to the BBC Schools TV topics series Landmarks is underway - I'm adding pages for each unit of programmes starting in 1988 and heading to the end in 2002.

Once that's all done there will be a full episode list including repeats from previous series, a single-page guide to all the units, and an overview to the whole series.

The companion series Zig Zag for younger pupils already has a full guide set up.

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17th January 2025 again: Catching up... here are various updates made to the site over the past year, which I didn't have time to summarise here.

Geordie Racer

Vastly expanded details of the Look and Read drama serials Geordie Racer from 1988, and Shadow Play from 2004 which is now 20 years ago! Including new pictures, production details, quotes and location maps.

A guide to all three series of the ITV Schools health education series Alive and Kicking from the 1970s and 80s.

Details of the BBC Schools TV 1980s art series Look, Look and Look Again

Stop, Look, Listen

A vastly expanded guide to the classic series Stop, Look, Listen including year-by-year accounts of the ITV Schools programmes from the 1970s and 80s, plus details of every unit made for Channel 4 Schools in the 1990s and 2000s.

More about the 1990s BBC religious education series Movable Feasts which wasn't even a schools programme at first.

Blatant storyline spoilers from the final episode of the early 1980s BBC TV series Maths-in-a-Box revealing the secrets of the planet Sooter.

Zig Zag

An account of the mad behind-the-scenes episode of Zig Zag which collapses in on itself as Paul Coia interrupts his own director to show a close-up of the script he is reading which instructs him to show a close-up of his script. It was only ever shown in 1986.

Tidied up and updated galleries for the long-running BBC school radio series Time and Tune and Music Workshop, including the full national broadcast history and details of the regular presenters and producers from all 50+ years of Music Workshop and a separate page for the series Music Workshop Stage Two.

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Latest updates

Portrait of Europe Includes video (from Landmarks) TV
New 5 Feb 2025 New page added about this unit of Landmarks and Primary Geography.
Victorian Britain (from Landmarks) TV
New 5 Feb 2025 New page added about this unit of Landmarks.
Portrait of Britain (from Landmarks) TV
New 5 Feb 2025 New page added about this unit of Landmarks.
Signed Landmarks TV
New 3 Feb 2025 Full update.
Britain Since 1930 (from Landmarks) TV
New 2 Feb 2025 Extra image added, ad for the Landmarks software.
Ulster in Focus TV
1 Feb 2025 An overview of this classic Northern Ireland series currently being repeated on BBC Four.
Coping with the Climate (from Landmarks) TV
New 19 Jan 2025 New page added about this unit of Landmarks.
Pakistan and Its People (from Landmarks) TV
New 19 Jan 2025 New page added about this unit of Landmarks.
Tudors and Stuarts (from Landmarks) TV
New 19 Jan 2025 New page added about this unit of Landmarks.
Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared (from Landmarks) TV
New 18 Jan 2025 New page added about this drama from Landmarks.
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