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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.
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 ...
In 1929, Somerville was named Director of School Broadcasting, a position which she held until 1947. [1] She believed firmly in the value of radio programming to enrich children's educational experiences, which she considered overly rigid at the time; under her tenure, school radio programs began to use dramatizations and sound effects to enliven their lessons.
BBC Bitesize; BBC Children's and Education; BBC Darwin Season; BBC Knowledge; BBC Learning Zone; BBC Radio 5 (former) BBC School Radio; BBC Schools; BBC Select (1992–1995) BBC Studios Natural History Unit; Maria Bird
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927.
BBC Radio Northampton 16 June 1982 Northamptonshire: Northampton — 104.2 103.6 10C 734 MW 1107 kHz (1982 - 17 April 1992) BBC Radio Suffolk 12 April 1990 Suffolk: Ipswich — 95.9 103.9 104.6 95.5 10C 720 — BBC Three Counties Radio 24 June 1985 (as BBC Radio Bedfordshire) Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire: Dunstable — 90.4 92.1 ...
Singing Together was a BBC Radio schools series which ran from 25 September 1939 to 29 March 2001, with repeats until 25 June 2004. [1] Its origins were in Community Singing which was considered necessary at the outbreak of the Second World War following the mass evacuation of children.
Top of the Form was a BBC radio and television quiz show for teams from secondary schools in the United Kingdom which ran for 38 years, from 1948 to 1986. The programme began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series, at 7.30pm on the Light Programme. It progressed to become a TV series from 1962 to 1975.