Music Makers (radio): The Rise and Demise of Kornkrake Katastroffy
The Rise and Demise of Kornkrake Katastroffy is a unit of the BBC schools radio series Music Makers from the 1970s, covering music for primary and secondary school pupils.
A play about a young man's rise to career success, subtitled or How Plantagenet Nobodicairs Became a Successful Person.
Plantagenet Nobodicairs is a disillusioned custard-stirrer in a food factory, who discovers he can inherit a fortune if he first becomes a successful person. He trains as a one-man-band and appears on a TV talent show, and eventually becomes the kazoo-playing pop star Kornkrake Katastroffy - but discovers that fame and adulation, without any friends left, does not necessarily make him a successful person.
Songs
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Broadcasts
- Spring 1977
- Spring 1979
Credits
| Written by | Derek Farmer |
| Music by | Max Brittain |
| Producer | Peter Hutchings |
Resources
The unit was accompanied by an illustrated pupils' pamphlet and a booklet of teachers' notes.
More Programmes
Some random programmes for age 11-13 from the 1970s
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| BBC Schools Radio | |
| 1975-1990 | |
| Music |
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| ITV Schools | |
| 1970-1981 | |
| English |
| This Island About Us | |
| ITV Schools | |
| 1972-1976 | |
| Geography |
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| BBC Schools Radio | |
| 1979 | |
| Citizenship |
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