Prose and Verse Readings
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started22nd Sep
1949
ended27th Jun
1966
17 school years
episodes
duration10 mins & 15 mins
subject
📚English
languageenIn English
Prose and Verse Readings is a BBC schools radio series from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, covering English for secondary school pupils.
- straightforward readings of prose and poetry without commentary, "in the belief that good literature, well spoken, can safely be left to make its own impression (BBC Broadcasts to Schools 1949-1950 p.10)
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