Zig Zag: Cathedrals

	Videomaths
	ITV Schools, Channel 4 Schools
	1988-1994
	Mathematics

	Wrth Reswm
	ITV Schools
	1988
	Science

	Going Places
	ITV Schools
	1984-1991
	Geography

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started27th Feb 1989

ended13th Mar 1989

last rpt26th May 1994

6 school years

episodes3

duration20 mins

subject 🏛️History

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

2 images from Cathedrals

Zig Zag

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Cathedrals is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s & 1990s, covering history for primary school pupils.

Programmes about the history and events at two cathedrals, in Lincoln and Derby.

Sheelagh Gilbey in a cathedral

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	The Building of a Cathedral	#1989-02-27-00-00-0027 Feb 1989
2.	The People of a Cathedral	#1989-03-06-00-00-006 Mar 1989
3.	The Life of a Cathedral	#1989-03-13-00-00-0013 Mar 1989

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Wed	Channel
1988-89	Spring 1989	Monday, 10:58am	Wednesday, 1:40pm	BBC2
1989-90	Summer 1990	various days & times		BBC2
1993-94	Summer 1994	various days & times		BBC2

Credits

Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer	Peter M. Evans

Resources

Project book

There were teacher's notes and a project book available.

Zig Zag (1983-2000)

Series Overview • Units • Episode List

Ancient Greece (1996) • The Anglo-Saxons (1992) • The Arabs (1984) • Art (1997) • Canada (1987) • Cathedrals (1989) • The Channel Tunnel (1987) • Computers (1983) • Danger Detectors (1996) • The Eskimos (1985) • Food and Farming (1995) • France (2000) • Gardens and Growth (1985) • Geography UK (1995) • Getting About (1988) • The Greeks (1986) • Hungry Times (1983) • Invaders (1997) • Kenya (1994-96) • Let's Face It (1990) • Making It Work (1997) • Mapmakers! (1993) • Mordicus (1986) • The Normans (1983) • The Odyssey (1990) • The Olympics (1984-92) • Over to You (1985-89) • Roman Britain (1993) • Rush, The Fallow Deer (1987) • The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair (1987) • Snapshots: Children in the Second World War (2000) • Space (1984-88) • Spaceship Earth (1986) • Tales from Europe (1992) • Tales from Europe (2000) • Technology (1991) • Topical Programmes (1985-89) • Trees (1993) • Trees and Man (1991) • Tudor Life (1998) • The Vikings (1987) • Village, Town, City (1997) • A Walk Through Time (1999) • Water (1990) • Water, Air, Land (1998) • Weather (1999) • Where You Live, Where I Live (1994) • Wildlife Safari (1989-91) • Winter Festival (1986) • World of Work (1989) • You and the Media (1986)

See also: Zig Zag Shorts • Landmarks • Primary Geography • Primary History

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Architecture

Medieval history

Christianity

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