Zig Zag: A Walk Through Time
A Walk Through Time is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag and Primary History from the 1990s & 2000s, covering history for primary school pupils.
A look at a British town developing over thousands of years of history. Tony Robinson sits on a bench in a computer-animated town, describing and pointing out the differences while the town changes through history from the Roman period, the Anglo-Saxons, the Tudors, the Victorians, the 1950s and the present-day at the turn of the 21st Century.
Tony in Roman times
Tony in modern times
Primary History
From 2003 this unit was repeated as part of the new series Primary History, with amended opening titles but otherwise intact.
Awards
This unit won the Royal Television Society Educational Television Award for Primary Arts & Humanities programmes in 1999.
Programme 1 was awarded the Hoso Bunka Foundation Special Prize at the Japan Prize International Educational Programme Contest in 2000, with a citation as "an excellent attempt at takin advantage of multi-media and which offers a new angle on educational broadcasting."
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Work | 25 Oct 1999 |
| 2. | Food | 8 Nov 1999 |
| 3. | Health | 15 Nov 1999 |
| 4. | Fashion | 22 Nov 1999 |
| 5. | Entertainment | 29 Nov 1999 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-2000 | Autumn 1999 | Monday, 11:10am | Wednesday, 11:20am | BBC2 | ||||
| 2000-01 | Autumn 2000 | weekdays, 1:10pm | BBC2 | 20-24 Nov | ||||
| Spring 2001 | Tuesday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | ||||||
| 2001-02 | Autumn 2001 | Tuesday, 12:10pm | BBC2 | |||||
| 2002-03 | Summer 2003 | Friday, 10:20am | BBC2 | Primary History | ||||
| 2003-04 | Autumn 2003 | Tuesday, 10:50am | BBC2 | Primary History | ||||
| 2005-06 | Summer 2006 | Friday, 10:50am | BBC2 | Primary History | ||||
| 2006-07 | Spring 2007 | Tuesday, 10:30am | BBC2 | Primary History | ||||
| 2007-08 | Summer 2008 | Tuesday, 10:50am | BBC2 | Primary History | ||||
CBBC Channel
Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes, as a unit of Zig Zag:
- 2001-02: Summer 2002
- 2002-03: Autumn 2002
... and as a unit of Primary History:
- 2003-04: Autumn 2003
- 2004-05: Autumn 2004 & Spring 2005
- 2005-06: Autumn 2005
- 2006-07: Autumn 2006
- 2007-08: Autumn 2007
Credits
| Presenter | Tony Robinson |
| Music | Richard Brown |
| Education advisers | Grant Bage Shelagh Scarborough |
| Executive Producer | Clare Elstow |
| Producer & Director | Andrea Christodoulou |
Resources
There were teacher's notes available.
Links
- BBC History - A Walk Through Time (archived 2000)
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