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16 January – Listen with Mother, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1982) [1] 6 June – Educating Archie, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1960) 7 June – The Archers, pilot episode (1950–Present) 5 November – Life with the Lyons, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1961)
The BBC began broadcasting schools programmes on television on 24 September 1957, airing in the afternoon. Morning transmissions began on 19 September 1960. Until 1972, schools programming along with adult education programmes were usually the only daytime programmes shown on both BBC and ITV, as the government regulated and restricted the ...
The School Broadcasting Council for the United Kingdom had been set up in 1947, replacing the CCSB, and included Scotland and Wales. In 1953, 25,691 British schools were registered for school radio; 9.55am, 11am and 2pm were for primary schools; 11.20am, 2.20pm and 2.40pm were for secondary modern schools; 11.40am was for grammar schools.
BBC TV 11 June 1950 15 June 1950 Live broadcast Ads Infinitum: Two 19 December 1996 30 October 2000 The Adventure Game: One Two 24 May 1980 18 February 1986 An Adventure in Space and Time: Two Four 21 November 2013 23 November 2023 Adventure Story: BBC TV 1950 Adventure Story: BBC TV 12 June 1961
September – Schools programmes on the BBC are now branded under the title of School Programmes with broadcasts limited to the morning hours. 1998. BBC Bitesize is launched as a free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom to aid pupils in both schoolwork and for older pupils, exams. [15] 1999
BBC Archive logo. The BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, BBC products (including toys, games, merchandise, books, publications, and programme releases on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, DVD, vinyl, audio cassette, audio ...
1937. 24 April – The first children's television show For the Children is broadcast.; 1939. 1 September – The BBC Television Service is suspended, about 20 minutes following the conclusion of a Mickey Mouse cartoon (Mickey's Gala Premier), owing to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War amid fears that the VHF transmissions would act as perfect guidance beams for enemy bombers ...
5 January – Jimmy Mulville, producer February – Dirk Maggs, Jersey-born radio producer 14 March – Felicity Finch, actress and reporter 5 April – Janice Long, née Chegwin, disc jockey (died 2021)