Zig Zag Shorts

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started10th Oct 2000

ended14th Nov 2000

last rpt4th Mar 2008as part of Primary Geography

8 school years

episodes5

duration10 mins

subject 🌏Geography

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

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Primary Geography

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Zig Zag Shorts is a BBC Schools TV series from the 2000s, covering geography for primary school pupils.

An exploration of four regions of contemporary France. These shorter programmes were drawn from the France unit of Zig Zag.

From 1999 selected units from the BBC's primary school geography series Landmarks and Zig Zag, usually 20 minutes long, were re-edited into shorter 10 minute programmes of selected highlights for easier use in busy schools. Two units of Landmarks Shorts were made, but just the one Zig Zag unit on France was reduced into this Zig Zag Shorts series

Josette Aitman presenting

Primary Geography

Primary Geography title

From 2002 the Shorts programmes were incorporated into the new series Primary Geography, with new opening titles, and repeated for a further five years. More of this format of shorter, 10 minute programmes were made for Primary Geography as it went on.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Paris	#2000-10-10-00-00-0010 Oct 2000
2.	Brittany	#2000-10-17-00-00-0017 Oct 2000
3.	The Camargue	#2000-11-14-00-00-0014 Nov 2000
4.	The Alps: Dairy Farming	#2000-10-11-00-00-0011 Oct 2000
5.	The Alps: Tradition and Tourism	#2000-10-18-00-00-0018 Oct 2000

The episodes were produced and envisaged in the order set out above, matching the running order of the original Zig Zag: France programmes, but as can be noted from the dates they were not actually shown in that order on the first transmission. Subsequent repeats restored more of the intended order so that by summer 2002 most repeat runs (at least those which included all 5 episodes) were in this order.

Broadcasts

2000
2006

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel
2000-01	Autumn 2000		Tuesday, 10:50am	Wednesday, 10:50am	Thursday, 10:50am		BBC2
	Spring 2001		Tuesday, 10:50am		Thursday, 10:50am		BBC2
	Summer 2001		Tuesday, 10:50am		Thursday, 10:50am		BBC2
2001-02	Autumn 2001			Wednesday, 12:20pm			BBC2
2001-02	Summer 2002		Tuesday, 11:50am				BBC2
2002-03	Autumn 2002					Friday, 12:10pm	BBC2
	Spring 2003	various days and times					BBC2
	Summer 2003		Tuesday, 11:20am		Thursday, 11:20am		BBC2
2003-04	Summer 2004		Tuesday, 10:40am				BBC2
2004-05	Autumn 2004				Thursday, 11:20am		BBC2
2005-06	Autumn 2005					Friday, 11:10am	BBC2
2005-06	Summer 2006				Thursday, 11:20am		BBC2
2006-07	Spring 2007				Thursday, 11:40am		BBC2
2006-07	Summer 2007	Monday, 11:30am				Friday, 10:40am	BBC2
2007-08	Spring 2008	Monday, 1:20pm	Tuesday, 1:20pm				BBC2

CBBC Channel

Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes:

2003-04: Spring 2004
2006-07: Autumn 2006 & Spring 2007

The original Zig Zag: France programmes were broadcast on CBBC more frequently than these Shorts versions.

Credits

Presenter	Josette Aitman
Producer	Cecilia Weiss

Links

BBC Programmes page for Zig Zag Shorts

Related programmes

Zig Zag: France

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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