Music Makers (radio): The Choir Outing

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companyBBC
started21st Jan 1981
ended1st Apr 1981
last rptMar 1983
3 school years
episodes10
duration20 mins
subject 🎶MusicMusic
age rangeAge 10-12Age 9-11 & Age 11-13
languageenIn English
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The Choir Outing is a unit of the BBC schools radio series Music Makers from the 1980s, covering music for primary and secondary school pupils.

A modern-day musical comedy about a Welsh choir and the tribulations they go through trying to get to London'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000A-QINU`"'.

The programmes also include magazine features about vocal music.

Songs

I am very grateful to have received these memories of three of the songs from The Choir Outing:

  • Please Mr Morgan ("asking the local Bank Manager for a loan - this was a brilliant song with totally different tempo and styles to the choir slowly pleading, and Mr Morgan rattling off the reasons not to lend anything"[1])
  • Forty Seater Bus
  • Here We Are in London

I don't have any further details of the songs from this unit. If you can help please get in touch by email

Broadcasts

Radio Times listing, 1981

Credits

Resources

The unit was accompanied by a pupils' pamphlet printed in shades of purple and a booklet of teachers' notes.

If you can fill in any gaps of information about this unit please get in touch by email!

Sources & references

  1. 1.0 1.1 With thanks to Suzanne Docherty for sharing memories of the story and the songs!


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