Schedule:Summer 1971
Advent of Steam
(ITV, Wednesdays 2:00pm & Fridays 11:00am)
Exploration Earth
(BBC Radio 4, Mondays 2:00pm)
Music Workshop Stage One
(BBC Radio 4, Fridays 9:45am)
Barenboim on Beethoven
(ITV, Wednesdays 2:35pm & Fridays 11:35am)
Le Butin de Colombert
(ITV, Tuesdays 11:40am & Thursdays 2:20pm)
Going to Work
(BBC1, Mondays 2:30pm & Tuesdays 11:18am)
Making Music
(BBC1, Tuesdays 11:40am & Fridays 2:05pm)
ITV schools annual programme guide 1970-71
ITV schools timetable 1970-71
BBC Radio
BBC schools radio programmes.
Radio 4 England
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| 09:45 | 9:45 Music Workshop Stage 2Another Shore | 9:45 Music Workshop Stage 1The Tree | ||||||||||||||
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| 10:45 | 10:47 Nous Voici!Planète 217, etc | 10:45 Foreign Correspondent | ||||||||||||||
| 10:50 Material for Assembly | 10:50 A Corner for Music | |||||||||||||||
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| 11:00 | 11:01 Singing Together(John Huw Davies) | 11:00 Movement and Music 1(Penny Whittam) | 11:00 InquiryVoice of Youth / The Third Airport | 11:00 Time and TuneFarms | ||||||||||||
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| 11:20 Springboard | 11:20 Music Club(Gary Taylor) | 11:20 DiscoveryPrime Movers / Colour and Texture | 11:20 Man | 11:20 Listening and Writing | ||||||||||||
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| 11:40 Drama Workshop | 11:40 Religion in its Contemporary ContextLuther | 11:40 Contemporary History | 11:40 Geography | 11:40 ProspectMan in an Industrial Society | ||||||||||||
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| 14:00 | 14:00 Exploration EarthBecause It's There / Look for Yourself | 14:00 World History | 14:00 Movement, Mime and Music 1(James Dodding) | 14:00 Living Language | 14:00 Let's Join In | |||||||||||
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| 14:20 The Music Box(Gordon Reynolds) | 14:20 Music SessionThe Beggar's Opera | 14:20 Books, Plays, PoemsI Know Where I Stand / I Know Where I'm Going | 14:20 Poetry Corner | |||||||||||||
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| 14:40 Movement, Mime and Music 2(Glyn Harris) | 14:40 Reproduction and Growth | 14:40 Stories and Rhymes: 7-9The Wizard of Oz, etc | ||||||||||||||
| 14:45 | 14:45 Nature | |||||||||||||||
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Radio 4 Northern Ireland
| MONDAY
as England. |
TUESDAY
as England. |
WEDNESDAY
as England. |
THURSDAY
as England. |
FRIDAY
as England plus: 11:00-11:20 Today and Yesterday in Northern Ireland: Five Men of the Eighteenth Century, etc |
Radio 4 Scotland
| MONDAY
as England except: 9:55-10:15 Stories from Scottish History 11:20-11:40 From Seven to Nine |
TUESDAY
as England except: 9:30-9:50 Religious Service for Primary Schools (Scottish) |
WEDNESDAY
as England except: 11:40-12:00 For School Leavers |
THURSDAY
as England except: 9:05-9:25 Religious Service for Primary Schools (Scottish) (rpt) 11:40-12:00 Exploring Scotland |
FRIDAY
as England plus: 9:25-9:45 Think and Move 10:30-10:50 Learning About Life 14:20-14:40 Learning About Life |
Radio 4 Wales
If you know which programmes were shown in the "unknown programme" gaps in this schedule please get in touch by email.
| DYDD LLUN
as England except: 11:20-11:40 Y Byd o'n Cwmpas (The World Around Us) |
DYDD MAWRTH
as England except: 9:30-9:55 Gwasanaeth Crefyddol (Religious Service) 11:00-11:20 Ymlaen â Ni (On We Go) |
DYDD MERCHER
as England except: 11:40-12:00 Ar Grwydr yng Nghymru (Wandering Through Wales) 14:20-14:45 unknown programme |
DYDD IAU
as England except: 11:20-11:40 unknown programme 11:40-12:00 Stories from Welsh History 14:40-15:00 Exploring Wales |
DYDD GWENER
as England except: 9:05-9:25 Gwasanaeth Crefyddol (Religious Service) (rpt) 11:00-11:20 unknown programme |
Notes
Programmes ran from Monday 26th April to Friday 25th June 1971. There were no broadcasts in England, Northern Ireland or Wales in the week beginning 31st May due to the school holidays, but all of the Scottish programmes continued as normal that week.
Religion in its Contemporary Context ran for only five episodes this term, including a two-part dramatisation of the story of Luther starring Barry Foster. After half term it was replaced by general-audience programmes. Reproduction and Growth and Prospect also did not return after half term, they were replaced by the music series Purely Personal and Growing Up with Music respectively.
There was a one-off broadcast of the Music Box Treasury Number 3 on Thursday 29th April at 9:25am.
BBC Television
BBC schools TV programmes
BBC1 England
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| 10:00 | 10:00 Merry Go RoundWhere We Live / Australia / Sex Education | 10:00 Maths Workshop Stage 2 | 10:00 Music Time(Mari Griffith & Ian Humphris) | 10:00 Science Session(Bob Holness) (rpt) | 10:00 Television ClubRoy and the Danelli Job (rpt) | |||||||||||
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| 10:25 Words and PicturesUp in the Attic Programme A | 10:25 Words and PicturesUp in the Attic Programme B | 10:25 Gweld a Siarad | 10:25 Maths TodayYear 2 (revised) | 10:25 Maths Workshop Stage 1 (rpt) | 10:25 Hwnt ac Yma | |||||||||||
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| 11:00 | 11:00 A Year's Journey | 11:00 British Social History (rpt) | 11:00 Watch!(Roseanne Harvey) | 11:00 Watch!(Roseanne Harvey) (rpt) | ||||||||||||
| 11:05 Changing Britain (rpt) | ||||||||||||||||
| 11:10 Discovering Science(Peter Kelly) (rpt) | ||||||||||||||||
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| 11:18 Going to Work (rpt) | 11:18 Maths Workshop Stage 2 (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
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| 11:30 | 11:30 New Horizons | |||||||||||||||
| 11:35 British Social History | 11:35 A Year's Journey (rpt) | 11:35 Music Time(Mari Griffith & Ian Humphris) (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
| 11:40 Making MusicThe Turtle Drum | ||||||||||||||||
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| 14:05 Maths TodayYear 1 (revised) | 14:05 Science All Around(Fergus O'Kelly) (rpt) | 14:05 Television ClubRoy and the Danelli Job | 14:05 Science Session(Bob Holness) | 14:05 Changing Britain | 14:05 Making MusicThe Turtle Drum (rpt) | |||||||||||
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BBC1 Northern Ireland
| MONDAY
as England. |
TUESDAY
as England. |
WEDNESDAY
as England except: 10:25-10:43 Ulster in Focus (fortnightly) |
THURSDAY
as England plus: 14:30-14:50 Ulster in Focus (fortnightly) (rpt) |
FRIDAY
as England. |
BBC1 Scotland
as England, but probably excluding the Welsh programmes on Wednesdays and Fridays (please get in touch by email if you have access to Scottish schedules and can confirm this).
BBC1 Wales
| MONDAY
as England. |
TUESDAY
as England. |
WEDNESDAY
as England. |
THURSDAY
as England plus: 14:30-14:50 Gweld a Siarad (rpt) |
FRIDAY
as England. |
Out of School
There were previews of BBC schools TV programmes during the Easter holidays, beginning at 1:55pm each day.
- Tuesday 13th April 1971
- Music Time, Look and Read and Out of the Past.
- Wednesday 14th April 1971
- Maths Workshop Stage 1, Science All Around and A Year's Journey.
- Thursday 15th April 1971
- Going to Work, Science Session and Scene.
- Friday 16th April 1971
- History 1917-71, Europe on the Move, Science Extra: Physics and New Horizons.
Notes & New Programmes
Programmes ran from Monday 26th April to Friday 25th June 1971, with no broadcasts in the week beginning 31st May.
The sixth form series New Horizons had only 4 episodes this term - it did not begin until Monday 3rd May, and did not return after the half term break.
The BBC had live coverage of Test Cricket and Racing from Ascot during June, but both were scheduled around the schools programmes and did not disrupt the schools schedules. The Wimbledon Tennis Championships, however, did disrupt the schools schedules. Once Wimbledon coverage began on 21st June there were no more afternoon schools programmes on the BBC, and there were also no more repeats of programmes which would have been show first in the afternoon (Going to Work, Science Session and Changing Britain). The repeat of Making Music on Friday 25th June was shown at the earlier-than-usual time of 11:05am.
Maths Workshop Stage 2 was shown fortnightly like most of the other maths programmes this term, but it both of its timeslots no programmes were shown in the intervening weeks.
There were no wholly new series introduced this term, but many existing series had new episodes. Television Club changed its format significantly this term with the premiere of Roy and the Danelli Job, a seven-part crime serial. Music Time came to the end of its first series which had begun in autumn 1970.
The only BBC schools TV series to be shown in colour this term was A Year's Journey. All other programmes, even newly produced ones, were still in black and white.
Independent Television
ITV schools programmes.
Thames Television
Programmes in the London area.
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| 11:00 | 11:00 Seeing and Doing | 11:00 Picture Box(Alan Rothwell) | 11:00 My World: Stories (rpt) | 11:00 Rules, Rules, Rules | 11:00 Advent of Steam (rpt) | |||||||||||
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| 11:15 | 11:16 Finding Out(Michael Harbour) (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
| 11:18 Towards Mathematics | 11:19 Meeting Our NeedsTransport | 11:18 Primary French2nd year | 11:22 Primary French2nd year | |||||||||||||
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| 11:30 | 11:30 It's Fun to Read (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
| 11:36 My World: Stories | 11:35 People Work Here (rpt) | 11:35 Barenboim on Beethoven (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
| 11:40 Le Butin de Colombert | 11:40 Our Neighbours (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
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| 14:00 | 14:00 Our Neighbours | 14:00 My World 2 | 14:00 Advent of Steam | 14:00 Karl und Christa (rpt) | 14:02 Rules, Rules, Rules (rpt) | |||||||||||
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| 14:35 Barenboim on Beethoven | 14:35 You and the World (rpt) | |||||||||||||||
| 14:38 Karl und Christa | 14:38 You and the World | 14:40 Le Butin de Colombert (rpt) | ||||||||||||||
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ATV Midlands
| MONDAY
as London. |
TUESDAY
as London, but excluding You and the World |
WEDNESDAY
as London. |
THURSDAY
as London. |
FRIDAY
as London, but excluding You and the World |
Anglia Television
as London.
Granada Television
| MONDAY
as London. |
TUESDAY
as London, but excluding Le Butin de Colombert and You and the World. |
WEDNESDAY
as London. |
THURSDAY
as London (Le Butin de Colombert is not a repeat). |
FRIDAY
as London, but excluding You and the World |
Yorkshire Television
as Midlands.
Grampian Television
| MONDAY
as London. |
TUESDAY
as London except: 11:18-11:38 The Police 14:40-14:58 Look and See |
WEDNESDAY
as London. |
THURSDAY
as London except: 14:00-14:20 The Police (rpt) |
FRIDAY
as London except: 14:35-14:53 Look and See (rpt) |
Other Regions
All ITV regional companies carried schools programmes, although Border Television as usual did not carry the morning broadcasts, their daily schools service began at 1:38pm. If you have the schedules for any of the regions not already carried here please get in touch by email.
Out of School
There were previews of this term's ITV schools programmes in the Easter holidays as a service for teachers. Each day in the week following Easter there was an introduction at 11:05am followed by a selection of schools programmes from a particular company.
- Tuesday 13th April 1971
- Programmes produced by Granada Television: It's Fun To Read, Picture Box, Barenboim on Beethoven and Our Neighbours.
- Wednesday 14th April 1971
- Programmes produced by Thames Television: Seeing and Doing, Finding Out, Advent of Steam, Le Butin de Colombert and You and the World.
- Thursday 15th April 1971
- Programmes produced by ATV: Stop Look Listen, Towards Mathematics, Primary French, Rules, Rules, Rules and Karl und Christa.
- Friday 16th April 1971
- Programmes produced by Yorkshire Television: My World: Stories, My World 2, Meeting Our Needs and People Work Here.
The schedule above is for Thames Television, London. The companies which did not show You and the World during term time (including ATV Midlands, Granada and Yorkshire Television) did not show the preview on 14th April either. There must have been other variations for the regions which produced their own local schools programmes (including Grampian Television), but I don't know any more details.
Notes & New Programmes
Programmes ran from Monday 3rd May to Friday 18th June 1971, with no broadcasts in the week beginning 31st May.
On Friday 28th May Anglia Television carried a live outside broadcast of the Queen turning on the pumps which would take water from the Fens to Essex - a broadcast titled Royal Day in Essex which began at 2:31pm. That afternoon's repeat of You and the World was broadcast at the earlier-than-usual time of 12:05pm on Anglia Television only.
During June ITV had coverage of horse racing events from Sandown and Redcar in the afternoons. The sports broadcasts began after the day's schools programmes had ended, which meant that on Fridays those regions for which My World was the final schools programme of the week (such as ATV Midlands and Yorkshire Television) began their coverage at 2:29pm, while the other regions which had a final schools programme starting at 2:35pm (such as Thames Television and Southern Television) did not join the racing until 2:55pm. Later in June and July, once the schools programmes had finished, racing coverage started much earlier in the afternoon.
Le Butin de Colombert, a French-language serial about a gang of bank robbers, was new this term and was the first French serial produced by Thames Television, following in the footsteps of Associated-Rediffusion, whose final French serial Le Mystère de Valbec had been repeated by Thames in the preceding years.
Another drama series Advent of Steam was also new this term. London's Science Museum put on a lecture called 'How Steam Engines Worked' on 15th & 16th June 1971 to coincide with the series[1].
The documentary series Barenboim on Beethoven had been shown for adults, late at night on ITV, in spring 1970, but it was "specially presented for schools"[2] for the first time this term.
There were two separate units of Finding Out programmes this term. The first three episodes were about movement and were produced by Scottish Television, and the last three episodes were about forms of transport and were produced by Thames Television. All of the episodes from both companies were presented by Michael Harbour.
ITV were producing far more of their schools programmes in colour than the BBC at this time. Advent of Steam, Barenboim on Beethoven, Le Butin de Colombert, It's Fun to Read, Meeting Our Needs, My World, Our Neighbours, most episodes of Picture Box', Rules, Rules, Rules and Seeing and Doing were all shown in colour this term, the remainder of the series were in black and white. Very few schools had been able to afford colour television receivers by this point and some regional companies such as Channel Television were not even able to broadcast in colour yet, so it was important for ITV to point out that "although producers will be making programmes in colour, they will remember that most schools will be watching in black and white"[3].
ILEA Television
The Inner London Education Authority's cable broadcasts to hundreds of schools in London continued this term, but I don't have any details of the specific programmes shown. If you know anything please get in touch by email!
Sources & References
- Daily Mail television listings, 1971 (Thames)
- Grampian (1970) Independent Television for Schools 1970/71 Annual Programme. Aberdeen: Grampian Television
- The Guardian television & radio listings, 1971 (Granada, BBC nations & radio nations)
- Mulliner, Brian & Lewis, Peter (1971) 'Educational Broadcasting' in Visual Education April 1971, pp.19-21
- Radio Times television & radio listings, 1971
- TV Times (Anglia edition) television listings, 1971
- TV Times (Midland edition) television listings, 1971
- TV Times (Yorkshire edition) television listings, 1971
- with thanks to Robin Carmody
- ↑ The Science Museum lecture and its link to Advent of Steam mentioned in Mulliner & Lewis (1971) p.19 col. B
- ↑ Barenboim on Beethoven was "a selection of six programmes from the adult series (...) specially presented for schools" according to Grampian (1970) p.31. The series originally was titled Genius: Barenboim on Beethoven and consisted hour-long episodes shown on ITV on Friday evenings from 20th February 1970, at different times in different regions between 10:30pm and 11:05pm. It was produced by Granada Television.
- ↑ "They will remember that most schools will be watching in black and white" quote from Grampian (1970) p.2. The dilemmas facing broadcasters and educationalists in producing schools TV programmes in colour were covered in a 1970 conference on 'Educational Broadcasting in the Seventies', reported in Visual Education October 1970 especially pp.104-107. The debate involved Barbara Crispin from the School Broadcasting Council, and represenatives of schools and LEAs in the audience, with a contribution from a member of the Independent Television Authority's Engineering Department. The gist of the argument was that the BBC felt it was more important to get more TVs (inevitably black-and-white ones due to cost) into schools that did not have them, or did not have enough of them, rather than upgrading existing receivers (or BBC studios!) to colour. The ITA already had the intrastructure in place and so were going ahead with colour production - they didn't want their schools programmes to appear dull in comparison to the colour programmes children would see at home.
Subjects key
Different colours indicate different school subjects.