The British Isles
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyAssociated-Rediffusion & Scottish
started21st Sep
1960
ended14th Jun
1961
last rpt22nd Jun
1961
1 school year
episodes24
duration20 mins
subject
🌏Geography
age rangeAge 11-13
languageenIn English
The British Isles is an ITV schools TV series from the 1960s, covering geography for secondary school pupils.
- pairs of programmes covering different areas of the British Isles, one showing specially filmed footage of the area and the other a studio documentary
- the series was produced by Associated-Rediffusion, but four programmes about Scotland in the autumn term were produced by Scottish Television
- seven programmes selected from the whole series were repeated for adults, on Thursday nights at 11:05pm in February and March 1962 on Associated-Rediffusion
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