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GCSE Bitesize was launched in January 1998, covering seven subjects. For each subject, a one- or two-hour long TV programme would be broadcast overnight in the BBC Learning Zone block, and supporting material was available in books and on the BBC website. At the time, only around 9% of UK households had access to the internet at home.
The poem explores the memory of the speaker and their experiences in a faraway city they spent time in as a child.The narrator reminisces about the place through their childhood eyes, although we see conflict between this and their adult perception of her homeland.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, first published in 1993 by Secker and Warburg.It won the Booker Prize that year. The story is about a 10-year-old boy living in Barrytown, North Dublin, and the events that happen within his age group, school and home in around 1968.
Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy.Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1843. Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, [1] high literature, [2] artistic literature, [2] and sometimes just literature, [2] are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction) or, otherwise, refer to novels that are ...
Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood originally intended to call this novel The Lost, a title he conceived in German, Die Verlorenen.The title The Lost would have encompassed three different meanings: "those who have lost their way", by which he meant Germans who were being misled by Adolf Hitler; "the doomed", those like the character Bernard Landauer whom Hitler had already marked for ...
Dickens describes his first appearance: The man who growled out these words, was a stoutly-built fellow of about five-and-thirty, in a black velveteen coat, very soiled drab breeches, lace-up half-boots, and grey cotton stockings which enclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves—the kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a ...
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and Own It.
A fact from BBC Bitesize appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 January 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,339 times (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the BBC's Bitesize online study resource has sections in Welsh and Gaelic?