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26th February 2024: 100 years of schools broadcasts - including 25 years of Zig Zag!

One century ago on the afternoon of 26th February 1924, broadcasting to schools in Britain began at the fledgling British Broadcasting Company radio station in Glasgow, with an experimental broadcast officially designed to be heard in just one school a few hundred metres from the studio.

The talks on history, Scottish ballads, and a French reading could barely be heard in the large school hall, but a violin recital went down well. A few weeks later at the start of April 1924 the BBC London station made its own first schools broadcast (which is more widely recognised as the start of British schools broadcasting, perhaps because it was listed in advance in the Radio Times and designed to be heard by more than one school), and soon stations all over the country were putting together their own schools broadcasts.

But on the centenary of the beginning of the whole enterprise this site now has a page about the very, very first British schools broadcast.

Also underway is a complete guide to the BBC schools TV topics series for junior schools, Zig Zag, which was broadcast for a full quarter century including repeats, and included a couple of historical drama serials and plenty of interesting documentary units.

This was the next most requested series for an update in the site's voting.

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27th November 2023: A few months after ITV & Channel 4 were done, we now have guides to all of the German language programmes for secondary schools made by BBC Schools TV, most of which basically show life for contemporary teenagers in Germany. That experience changes quite a bit from Treffpunkt: Deutschland in the 1970s to Alles Klar in the 1980s, Lernexpress and D-Mag in the 1990s and German Shorts in the 2000s, especially with the fall of the Berlin Wall, documented particularly by The German Collection.

Along the way we also have a drama serial about a boat called Susanne, the adventures of a visiting alien called Globo, and the most remarkable dance moves ever seen, in Hallo aus Berlin.

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And in response to votes for pages people would most like to see updated, I have had a go at updating information about both the Maths Challenge TV and radio series from the 2000s, and the 1970s-80s Ulster TV primary schools series Hop, Skip and Jump.

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Latest updates

The Anglo-Saxons (from Zig Zag) TV
New 18 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
Tales from Europe (1992) (from Zig Zag) TV
New 18 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
Technology (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
Trees and Man (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
Water (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
Let's Face It (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
The Odyssey (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
World of Work (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
Cathedrals (from Zig Zag) TV
New 17 Mar 2024 Topics added and episode list fixed
Wildlife Safari (from Zig Zag) TV
New 6 Mar 2024 New page added about this unit of Zig Zag.
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