Time and Tune: Over the Moon
Over the Moon is a unit of the BBC schools radio series Time and Tune from the 1980s and 1990s, covering Music for primary school pupils.
A series of programmes with a space theme. There was an ongoing storyline about the amazing adventures of a Scotsman, Jim McSocket, travelling through space and time and seeing remarkable things.
Songs
All 12 songs from this unit, with a short extract from each.
Set free, set free
From darkness, set free into light
Over the moon, what shall we find?
Planets and stars, creatures of all kinds.
Jim McSocket built a rocket, went to conquer space.
And as he whizzed past all the stars, he crash landed on Mars.
'Where, oh where, oh where,' said I.
'Oh where are we going to up so high?'
In my dreams I reach to you,
Touched by your white flame.
Rockin' and rollin' and reeling a round,
Swiv'lin and swingin' and spinning around.
Grow up strong, reach towards the sky.
Grow up strong, straight and tall so high.
Fish 'n' chips are floating in the air.
Fish 'n' chips are floating in the air.
You're mine, all mine,
Yes mine, all mine,
At the end, the end of all time.
And the man in the moon played a tune on his spoons,
And they danced all afternoon.
Over the moon, under the stairs,
Venus, Neptune, Saturn and Mars.
One day soon you'll fall to Earth,
But till that time my satellite spins the world.
Credits
| Produced by | Barry Gibson |
Resources
A colour pupils' pamphlet, and a black-and-white booklet of teacher's notes, both 24 pages long, were published to accompany the broadcasts. They were available only in packs with 5 pamphlets and a free set of notes.
The centre spread of the pupils' pamphlet provided the playing board for a board game called Space Warps, in which players were given musical challenges as they tried to get from the Earth to the North Star satellite, via all of the other planets.
Episodes
The 10 episodes were first broadcast in the spring term 1989, on Tuesdays at 11:00 on BBC Radio 4 (and Radios Cymru, Scotland & Ulster).
Recordings of the episodes were repeated in Spring 1991: on Wednesdays at 9:45am on BBC Radio 5, 1:45am on Thursday mornings on BBC Radio 3 FM, Wednesdays at 11:00am on Radio Scotland FM, and Fridays at 2:35pm on Radio Cymru.
All ten episodes are preserved in the BBC archives.
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Big Bang | 10 Jan 1989 |
| 2. | Jim McSocket Built a Rocket | 17 Jan 1989 |
| 3. | Ninety-Nine Times as High as the Moon | 24 Jan 1989 |
| 4. | Star, You're Burning... | 31 Jan 1989 |
| 5. | Take a New Look at Your Planet | 7 Feb 1989 |
| 6. | Extra-Terrestrial Plant Music | 14 Feb 1989 |
| 7. | Fisn 'n' Chips are Floating in the Air | 21 Feb 1989 |
| 8. | The Satellite Song | 28 Feb 1989 |
| 9. | They Danced All Afternoon | 7 Mar 1989 |
| 10. | Over the Moon, Under the Stars | 14 Mar 1989 |
Sources & References
- BBC (1989a) Time and Tune pupils' pamphlet, spring 1989. London: BBC. ISBN 0 563 34213 7
- BBC (1989b) Time and Tune teacher's notes, spring 1989. London: BBC. ISBN 0 563 34213 7
- BBC timetable wallcharts, spring 1989 & spring 1991