Schedule:Autumn 1978
Time and Tune
(Radio 4, Thursdays 11:00am)
Music Time
(BBC1, Mondays 11:22am & Wednesdays 10:23am)
Singing Together
(Radio 4, Mondays 11:00am)
Today and Yesterday in Northern Ireland
(Radio Ulster, Fridays 11:00am)
History: Long Ago
(Radio 4, Tuesdays 2:00pm)
BBC Radio
Schools programmes on BBC radio.
BBC Radio 4 VHF
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| 9:05 Deutsch für die Oberstufe | 9:05 A Service for Schools | |||||||||||||||
| 9:10 Contact | ||||||||||||||||
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| 9:20 Look and Read Radio Resource MaterialSky Hunter / The King's Dragon | ||||||||||||||||
| 9:25 History in Evidence | 9:25 Impact | |||||||||||||||
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| 9:35 Voix de France | ||||||||||||||||
| 9:40 La France Aujourd'hui | 9:40 Secondary Science | |||||||||||||||
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| 9:50 Poetry Corner | ||||||||||||||||
| 9:55 The World of Work | 9:55 Let's Move!(Judith Davis) (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
| 10:00 | 10:00 Music MakersGrand Tour of Europe | 10:00 Music WorkshopRumpelstiltskin | ||||||||||||||
| 10:05 Time to MoveThe Red Shoes / The Popular Trees / Briar Rose | ||||||||||||||||
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| 10:15 | 10:15 Playtime(Judy Bennett) | |||||||||||||||
| 10:20 La Parole aux Jeunes | 10:20 Stories and RhymesPoems | |||||||||||||||
| 10:25 Notice Board | ||||||||||||||||
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| 10:45 | 10:45 Da Sind Wir Wieder! | 10:45 The Music Box(Michael Burnett & Sandra Kerr) | 10:45 Horizons de France | 10:45 A Corner for Music | ||||||||||||
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| 10:55 Notice Board | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 | 11:00 Singing Together(Johnny Morris) | 11:00 Let's Move!(Judith Davis) | 11:00 Inquiry | 11:00 Time and TuneTorum and the Star Kings | 11:00 The Orchestra | |||||||||||
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| 11:20 Springboard | 11:20 Music Club(Gary Taylor) | 11:20 Introducing Science | 11:20 Man | 11:20 Listening and Writing | ||||||||||||
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| 11:40 Drama Workshop | 11:40 Religion and Life | 11:40 QuestPeople of God / Global Family, etc | 11:40 Our Changing World | 11:40 ProspectThe Language of Mathematics | ||||||||||||
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| 14:00 | 14:00 Exploration Earth | 14:00 History: Long AgoThe Tower of London, etc | 14:00 Movement and Drama I | 14:00 Living Language | 14:00 Let's Join InSoundbox | |||||||||||
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| 14:20 Listening and Reading I | 14:20 Days That Made History | 14:20 Books, Plays, Poems | 14:20 Religious Education I | 14:20 Religious Education II | ||||||||||||
| 14:25 Playtime(Judy Bennett) (rpt) | ||||||||||||||||
| 14:30 | 14:30 Speak | |||||||||||||||
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| 14:40 Movement and Drama IIJason and the Argonauts | 14:40 Stories and RhymesStories | 14:40 Learning About Life | 14:40 Adventure | |||||||||||||
| 14:45 | 14:45 Nature(Phil Drabble) | |||||||||||||||
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BBC Radio Northern Ireland
| MONDAY
as England. |
TUESDAY
as England except: 11:40-12:00 Irish Geography |
WEDNESDAY
as England. |
THURSDAY
as England except: 9:55-10:15 Modern Irish History |
FRIDAY
as England except: 11:00-11:20 Today and Yesterday in Northern Ireland |
BBC Radio Scotland VHF
Schools programmes were carried on the VHF service of Radio Scotland. The Gaelic-language series were only carried in north & north-west Scotland, on BBC Radio Highland.
| MONDAY
as England except: 10:05-10:25 Clan Ogg Ri Ceilean (Radio Highland only) 11:20-11:40 Time to Move |
TUESDAY
as England except: 9:55-10:15 Scottish Writing 14:00 Jigsaw 14:20-14:40 From Scotland's Past |
WEDNESDAY
as England except: 11:00-11:20 Scottish Magazine |
THURSDAY
as England except: 9:15-9:35 A Scottish Religious Service 10:45-11:00 Culaidh Mhiogais (Radio Highland only) 11:20-11:40 Exploring Scotland 14:20 Scottish History 14:40-15:00 Living with Others |
FRIDAY
as England except: 11:00-11:20 Có lad? (Radio Highland only) |
BBC Radio Cymru VHF
| DYDD LLUN
as England except: 11:20-11:40 Gair yn ei Le |
DYDD MAWRTH
as England except: 10:15-10:30 Un, Dau, Tri! 13:45-14:00 Dere Di |
DYDD MERCHER
as England except: 11:00-11:20 O Bant i Bentan |
DYDD IAU
as England except: 9:35-9:55 Wales and Beyond 9:55-10:15 Symud a Chân |
DYDD GWENER
as England except: 11:00-11:20 Sain, Cerdd a Chân 11:40-12:00 Wales and the Welsh |
Notes & New Programmes
New series introduced this term included Days That Made History for 13-16 year olds, and Introducing Science for primary school pupils. A new, revised version of the series Man was launched this term, and the Look and Read programmes of "radio resource material" to accompany the TV series Sky Hunter were also new.
BBC Television
BBC1 England
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| 09:30 | 9:30 Canoe | |||||||||||||||
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| 9:38 Science All Around(Fergus O'Kelly & Ann Heyno) | 9:38 Everyday Maths (rpt) | 9:38 Mathshow | 9:38 Out of the PastThe Fiery Pits / Charles Dickens (rpt) | 9:38 Twentieth Century History | 9:38 It's Maths (rpt) | |||||||||||
| 09:45 | 9:41 Merry Go Round (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
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| 10:00 | 10:00 Merry Go Round | 10:00 Landscape | 10:00 Look and ReadSky Hunter (rpt) | |||||||||||||
| 10:05 Look and ReadSky Hunter | 10:03 Everyday Maths | 10:03 Scan (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
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| 10:23 It's Maths | 10:23 Exploring Science (rpt) | 10:23 Music Time (rpt) | 10:25 Near and Far | 10:25 Mathshow (rpt) | 10:23 Ffenestri | |||||||||||
| 10:30 | 10:30 Let's Go (rpt of Sunday) | |||||||||||||||
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| 10:45 | 10:45 You and MeCrow & Alice | 10:45 You and MeCrow & Alice | 10:45 You and MeCrow & Alice | |||||||||||||
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| 11:00 | 11:00 Engineering Craft Studies | 11:00 Watch(James Earl Adair, Raewyn Blade & Louise Hall-Taylor / Jean Rogers & Ken Binge) | 11:00 Exploring Science | 11:00 Near and Far (rpt) | 11:00 Scene | |||||||||||
| 11:05 Out of the PastThe Fiery Pits / Charles Dickens | 11:05 Location Britain (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
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| 11:15 | 11:17 Going To Work (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
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| 11:22 Music Time(Kathryn Harries & Peter Combe) | 11:23 Words and Pictures(Henry Woolf & Charlie) (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
| 11:30 | 11:30 Hyn o Fyd | 11:30 A Job Worth Doing? (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
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| 11:38 The Craft of the Potter | 11:38 Taking Shape | 11:40 Biology | ||||||||||||||
| 11:45 | 11:45 General Studies | |||||||||||||||
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| 11:55 Bellamy - on Botany! | ||||||||||||||||
| 12:00 | 12:00 The Business World | |||||||||||||||
| 12:05 A Job Worth Doing? | 12:05 ¡Dígame! | |||||||||||||||
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| 14:00 | 14:01 Words and Pictures(Henry Woolf & Charlie) | 14:00 You and MeWhat Shape? | 14:01 Watch(James Earl Adair, Raewyn Blade & Louise Hall-Taylor / Jean Rogers & Ken Binge) (rpt) | 14:00 You and MeLines and Circles | 14:02 Scene (rpt) | |||||||||||
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| 14:15 | 14:14 Encounter Germany | 14:14 Treffpunkt: Deutschland (rpt) | 14:14 EnglishThe Plough and the Stars / The Government Inspector / A Collier's Friday Night, etc (rpt) | |||||||||||||
| 14:18 Location Britain | 14:18 Twentieth Century History (rpt) | 14:18 Scan | 14:18 Science All Around (rpt) | |||||||||||||
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| 14:30 | 14:30 EnglishThe Plough and the Stars / The Government Inspector / A Collier's Friday Night, etc | |||||||||||||||
| 14:35 General Studies (rpt) | ||||||||||||||||
| 14:40 Going To Work | 14:40 Physical Science | |||||||||||||||
| 14:45 | 14:45 Treffpunkt: Deutschland | 14:45 Encounter Germany (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
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BBC1 Northern Ireland
| MONDAY
as England. |
TUESDAY
as England. |
WEDNESDAY
as England. |
THURSDAY
11:30-11:50 unknown programme |
FRIDAY
10:23-10:43 Ulster in Focus (fortnightly) |
I don't know the full details of broadcasts in Northern Ireland this term. Ulster in Focus was shown on a fortnightly basis, probably on Thursdays with repeats the following Friday. One other programme was broadcast this term, possibly Green Peas and Barley-o.
BBC1 Scotland
| MONDAY
as England except: 10:00-10:20 Around Scotland |
TUESDAY
as England except: 09:38-09:58 Geography for Secondary I and II |
WEDNESDAY
as England except: 11:00-11:20 Let's See 14:18-14:38 Around Scotland |
THURSDAY
as England except: 09:41-10:01 Let's See 11:30-11:50 Living in Scotland |
FRIDAY
as England except: 10:23-10:45 Living in Scotland 11:05-11:25 Geography for Secondary I and II |
BBC1 Wales
| DYDD LLUN
as England except: 14:18-14:38 Let's Look at Wales (fortnightly) |
DYDD MAWRTH
as England except: 10:00-10:20 Hyn o Fyd (Thursday broadcast is a repeat) |
DYDD MERCHER
as England except: 10:00-10:20 Hynt ac Yma (fortnightly) 14:18-14:38 Ffenestri |
DYDD IAU
as England except: 14:14-14:34 Hynt ac Yma (fortnightly) |
DYDD GWENER
as England except: 11:05-11:25 Let's Look at Wales (fortnightly) |
Notes & New Programmes
The broadcasting term for BBC radio and TV was 10 weeks long, running from Monday 18th September to Friday 1st December 1978. Programmes in the week beginning 30th October were repeats from the previous week, to accommodate schools taking half term during different weeks. You and Me, which was aimed at young children in nursery schools and and at home, before normal school age, did not observe the half-term repeats but it did continue its usual transmission pattern of showing a number of new programmes at the start of the term, and repeating all of those programmes later in the term.
On Thursday 21st September 1978, in the first week of term, BBC1 showed International Golf coverage (The Hennessy Cognac Cup) at 11:20am-12:45pm, following a particularly short episode of Scene. The schools programmes were shifted out of the way to allow this: Hyn of Fyd was shown at 9:20am before the other programmes, Bellamy - on Botany! was delayed until the following week, but the series later continued during half term week instead of showing a repeat, so all 10 episodes were screened. The adult education series On the Move, which would normally be screened at 12:25pm before the lunchtime news, was moved down to 10:45am and screened amongst the schools programmes. On BBC1 Scotland Living in Scotland went out as planned at 11:30am, and they joined the rest of the country for Golf coverage at 11:50am.
New this term was Let's Go, a pioneering series for mentally handicapped children and young adults, which was jointly produced by the BBC Further Education Television and BBC Schools Television departments, and was first shown on BBC1 on Sunday mornings at 10:30 then repeated on BBC2 on Monday afternoons and finally broadcast for schools on Tuesdays.
¡Dígame!, an introductory series for learners of Spanish, was another cross-over programme with broadcasts on BBC1 on Sunday mornings and BBC2 on Monday evenings following the schools broadcast on Wednesdays. There were also radio programmes broadcast on Radio 4. Also new this term was Everyday Maths.
Independent Television
Thames Television, London
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | |||||||||||||
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| 09:30 | 9:30 Finding Out | 9:30 Seeing and Doing | 9:30 My WorldStories | 9:30 Stop, Look, ListenChris Tarrant | 9:30 Leapfrog (rpt) | |||||||||||
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| 9:42 Making a Living (rpt) | ||||||||||||||||
| 09:45 | 9:47 How We Used To Live1874-1887 Mid-Victorians | 9:45 Reading with Lenny | 9:44 Look Around | 9:44 Good Health (rpt) | 9:47 Starting OutSeries 2 (rpt) | |||||||||||
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| 10:00 | 10:00 Believe It Or Not | |||||||||||||||
| 10:04 The English Programme | 10:04 My WorldReal Life (rpt) | 10:05 Believe It Or Not (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
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| 10:15 | 10:16 Picture Box | |||||||||||||||
| 10:15 It's More Life | ||||||||||||||||
| 10:23 ExperimentChemistry | ||||||||||||||||
| 10:30 | 10:31 French StudiesLa France Telle Qu'Elle Est / Comment Dit-On...? | |||||||||||||||
| 10:35 Music Round | 10:35 Writers' Workshop (rpt) | 10:33 The English Programme (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
| 10:40 Politics: What's It All About? | 10:40 Facts for LifeFamily Matters | 10:40 The World Around Us | ||||||||||||||
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| 11:00 | 11:00 Finding Out (rpt) | 11:00 Writers' Workshop | 11:00 Music Round (rpt) | 11:02 My World (rpt)Stories | ||||||||||||
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| 11:15 | 11:15 The MessengersThe Fact of the Matter | 11:15 Picture Box (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
| 11:22 Good Health | 11:22 Look Around (rpt) | 11:20 Starting OutSeries 2 | 11:22 Seeing and Doing (rpt) | |||||||||||||
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| 11:30 | 11:32 Stop, Look, ListenChris Tarrant (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
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| 11:40 Making a Living | 11:40 The Land | 11:39 How We Used To Live1874-1887 Mid-Victorians (rpt) | 11:39 French Studies (rpt)La France Telle Qu'Elle Est / Comment Dit-On...? | |||||||||||||
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ATV Midlands
| MONDAY
as London, but excluding Music Round and Writers' Workshop |
TUESDAY
as London. |
WEDNESDAY
as London, but excluding French Studies. |
THURSDAY
as London, but Writers' Workshop, Music Round and French Studies are not repeats |
FRIDAY
as London, but excluding The World Around Us |
Anglia Television
| MONDAY
as London plus: 10:10-10:36 Survival and excluding Music Round and Writers' Workshop |
TUESDAY
as London. |
WEDNESDAY
as London except: 10:31-10:57 Survival (rpt) |
THURSDAY
as Midlands. |
FRIDAY
as Midlands. |
Yorkshire Television
| MONDAY
as London except: 10:10 Stepping Stones 10:35 Make It Count |
TUESDAY
as London. |
WEDNESDAY
as London except: 10:31 Documentary Re-run |
THURSDAY
as Midlands. |
FRIDAY
as London except: 10:40 Meeting Our Needs |
Tyne Tees Television
| MONDAY
as London except: 10:10 Stepping Stones and excluding Music Round and Writers' Workshop |
TUESDAY
as London. |
WEDNESDAY
as Yorkshire. |
THURSDAY
as Midlands. |
FRIDAY
as Yorkshire. |
The following regional schedules are not necessarily complete. All remaining schools programmes shown across the ITV network this term are listed on their originating company below. But some of the programmes shown in London were probably not taken by these broadcasters, and some of the below programmes were part-networked by several companies, plus there were other regional companies broadcasting but not listed here.[1].
The TVTimes listings magazine evidently had some difficulty in coping with the regional differences in schools broadcasts. For example the Midlands Edition, listing programmes on ATV, at least once described Writers' Workshop on Thursdays as a "repeat of Monday" although ATV did not carry the Monday transmissions, and French Studies on Thursdays as "shown yesterday" although ATV did not carry the Wednesday transmissions.
Granada Television
| MONDAY
10:13 History Around You 10:30 The Land (Tuesday broadcast is a repeat) 10:55 Workshop |
WEDNESDAY
10:31 Facts for Life (rpt) / Politics: What's It All About? (rpt) |
FRIDAY
11:55 Workshop (rpt) |
Channel Television
| MONDAY
11:39 En Français II |
WEDNESDAY
11:39 En Français I |
THURSDAY
11:39 En Français II (rpt) |
FRIDAY
11:44 En Français I (rpt) |
HTV
| MONDAY
10:10 Am Gymru |
WEDNESDAY
10:41 About Wales |
THURSDAY
09:44 About Wales (rpt) |
FRIDAY
09:47 Am Gymru (rpt) |
Scottish Television
| MONDAY
10:10 Play Fair |
WEDNESDAY
09:42 Play Fair (rpt) |
Ulster Television
| MONDAY
10:10 Let's Look at Ulster |
WEDNESDAY
11:17 Let's Look at Ulster (rpt) |
Grampian Television
| WEDNESDAY
10:31 Mathman |
FRIDAY
10:40 Mathman (rpt) |
Notes & New Programmes
Schools programmes on ITV observed the same 10-week schedule as the BBC, beginning on Monday 18th September, finishing on Friday 1st December 1978, and with half-term repeats in the week beginning 30th October. After the end of term ITV broadcast three previews of Next Year at School from Tuesday 5th to Thursday 7th December.
New series beginning this term included Making a Living, produced by Yorkshire Television, beginning a planned two-year cycle of programmes for school leavers, and Politics: What's It All About from Granada Television. How We Used To Live launched a new series on Mid-Victorians, covering the period 1874-1887.
All of the programmes sharing time slots were scheduled in a way which overlapped - in the first week Good Health was shown on Tuesday and Look Around was shown on Thursday, then the same episodes were repeated in the second week with Look Around on Tuesday and Good Health on Thursday.
Granada Television's The Messengers was also a fortnightly series, the programme shown in the first week was repeated in the second week in the same time slot.
Look Around (which began in 1973) was unrelated to Look Around You, the title used for a repeat run of the schools series Experiment on BBC2 in 2002.
Sources & References
- BBC (1980) BBC Handbook incorporating the Annual Report and Accounts 1978-79. London: BBC. ISBN 0-563-17811-6
- The Guardian television & radio listings 1978
- IBA Annual Report 1978-79
- Radio Times television & radio listings 1978
- The Times television listings 1978, including regional variations, via The Times Digital Archive
- TV Times (London Edition) television listings 1978, via TV Times Project database
- TV Times (Midland Edition) television listings 1978
- ↑ The complete list of schools programmes shown across the ITV network, together with the originating company and broadcast timeslots, were listed in IBA (1979).
Subjects key
Different colours indicate different school subjects.