Music Makers (radio): The American Pageant

📻BBC Schools Radio

companyBBC

started28th Apr 1976

endedJun 1976

last rpt14th Jun 1978

3 school years

episodes8

duration20 mins

subject 🎶MusicMusic

age rangeAge 10-12Age 9-11 & Age 11-13

languageenIn English

3 images from The American Pageant

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The American Pageant is a unit of the BBC schools radio series Music Makers from the 1970s, covering music for primary and secondary school pupils.

A series of songs on significant moments in the history of the United States.

The unit was originally put on in 1976 to support project work commemorating the 200th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.

Songs

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Broadcasts

Radio Times listing, 1976

• Summer 1976
• Summer 1978

Credits

Introduced by	Ian Humphris Mari Griffith
The American Pageant written by	Dave Robbins
Music arranged by	Peter Hutchings
Producer	Peter Hutchings

Resources

The unit was accompanied by an illustrated pupils' pamphlet

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