Senior English II
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started25th Sep
1939
endedMar
1961
22 school years
duration25 mins & 20 mins
subject
📚English
languageenIn English
Senior English II is a BBC schools radio series from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, covering English for secondary school pupils.
- Senior English split into multiple broadcasts per week on outbreak of war in 1939.
- Senior English I became a series for less-literary children, while Senior English II covered talks on books and characters, poetry performances and dramatic biographies.
- replaced by Books, Plays, Poems
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