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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.
It was announced in 2009 that all schools programming would be moved to the BBC Learning Zone with the final daytime schools programme on BBC Two shown on 26 March 2010 – a repeat of the Look and Read series Captain Crimson (which was also the final episode of the series). All schools programmes were then shown overnight on the BBC Learning ...
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.
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
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. [2]
BBC School Radio; BBC Schools; BBC Select (1992–1995) BBC Studios Natural History Unit; Maria Bird; C. Channel 4 Learning; ... (radio series) List of In Our Time ...
Children's Hour was broadcast from 1922 to 1964, originally from the BBC's Birmingham station 5IT, [1] soon joined by other regional stations, then in the BBC Regional Programme, before transferring to its final home, the new BBC Home Service, at the outbreak of the second World War. Parts of the programme were also rebroadcast by the BBC World ...
7 March – BBC Two airs the final episode of the 1993 series of Grange Hill, concluding a Sunday morning rerun of the first 16 series of the school drama which began in April 1993. [ 121 ] [ 122 ] 26 March – Debut of As the Crow Flies , a seven-part BBC Two series in which Janet Street-Porter sets out to walk the 350 miles between the ...