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Title
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Production Company
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Broadcaster
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Prefix YouTube code with
www.youtube.com/watch?
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Did you know?
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1924
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First schools radio broadcast
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BBC
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Princess Elizabeth’s wartime radio broadcast at:
www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/subjects/history/ww2clips/speeches/princess_elizabeth
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BBC School Radio began on 4 April 1924 when the BBC was still the British Broadcasting Company (it became a Corporation in 1927). The first school broadcast was given by the composer Sir Walford Davies, Professor of Music at Gresham College.
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1934
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First primary schools radio broadcast
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BBC
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First broadcasts for primary schools - including Music and Movement.
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1952
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Schools television pilot
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BBC
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www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/Category:1950s
Presents the cover of Nature Study.
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Pilot of schools television; 20 programmes by microwave link from Alexandra Palace to six schools in Middlesex.
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1957
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First independent schools television: Looking and Seeing
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Associated-Rediffusion
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www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/Looking_and_Seeing#The_First_Schools_TV_Broadcast
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Full launch of television for schools with the first science-based programme – comparing the eye with a camera – on May 20, 1957.
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1960
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Discovering Science
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With teacher's notes and pupil pamphlets!
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1960?
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Thinkabout
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BBC
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Science and Maths series.
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1960?
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Introducing Science, later Science Scope
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BBC Radio
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Introducing Science Extra, with a fiddly electronics kit – wiring up on base boards – could be used with headphone sets.
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1964-90
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Radiovision
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BBC
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BBC
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Around 40 programmes of Radiovision were made each year, providing colour slides/filmstrips to synchronise with radio programmes. A full collection is held at the London Institute of Education.
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1965?
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Science All Around
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BBC
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See also:
v=oq0m5WUsgjE
‘Science in the primary school’, introducing Nuffield Science.
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Irene Finch, adviser Weekly: sometimes too frequent for follow-up.
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1970
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Science Workshop
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BBC
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BBC
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v=l1qPqyTkERc&NR=1
www.tvcream.co.uk/?cat=3261
www.televisiontunes.com/BBC_
for_Schools_and_Colleges_-_Science_Workshop.html
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Fortnightly; now teachers had time to follow up each programme. Often aesthetically beautiful; see, for example, the programme on ‘Reflections’.
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1970
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Nature
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BBC
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Included a controversial sex education series for 8 year olds.
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1971
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Stop, Look, Listen
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ATV
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ITV
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v=BAp8Fgz0sTc
Title at www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/File:Stop_Look_Listen_title_2.jpg
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General knowledge series, but with lots of science content. Dilys Howell, Producer; Chris Tarrant was one presenter.
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1980?
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See for Yourself
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BBC Radio
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Infant science series supported by Radiovision.
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1981
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Zig Zag
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Many
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BBC
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v=ci2diJ-ol8I
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Mostly Geography and History, but with some science and technology, too.
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1981
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Starting Science
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Central TV
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ITV Schools, then Central TV from 1982
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v=2nXF7QgFEDU&NR=1
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For age 8 and over. Lively, circus feel, fortnightly.
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1982
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BBC Microcomputer
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Acorn Computers
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BBC
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
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5½ inch floppy discs in a computer originally designed for a literacy programme
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1987
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Science – Start Here
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Central TV
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Central TV
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v=l1qPqyTkERc&NR=1
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Included supporting software for the BBC computer. Max Mason introduced the series, and also advertised sofas for DFS.
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1990
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Stage Two Science
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Central Television, later Television Junction. Some from Rock Hopper, Open Mind, and Scottish Television Enterprises
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Channel 4 Schools
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v=htqt49j5wPM
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/636619
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Gail Porter co-presented the Earth and Space around the same time as she was projected, nude, on the Houses of Parliament.
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1990
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Stage One, later Stage One Science
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Central Television
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Channel 4 Schools
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General series, but with many science-based programmes.
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1994
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Fourways Farm
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CASE Television
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C4L
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v=SMIzilfnhQU
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/24031
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The first programme sold by independent television to the BBC. Winner of the Japan Prize, 1994. Tom Stanier, the Director, sang the song. All the animal voices: Martin Jarvis. Jim Parker: music. Chris Ellis: (Grange Hill) scriptwriter.
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1994
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The Experimenter
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Diverse Production
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BBC Primary Science Project
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v=eryfU54nrvY
v=vnl7ejXHSJY
www.locatetv.com/tv/experimenter/1583466/episode-guide
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/614149?view=synopsis
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XP, an alien with little understanding of how the Earth worked, and Sarah, his child guide. XP loved prawn flavoured crisps. Sadly, Sarah grew too old for a second series. Glyn Edwards, writer/producer, was Punch and Judy Professor.
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1994
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Science Zone
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BBC
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BBC Primary Science Project
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v=yiXDwXL3kZE
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/596665
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A big budget helped make these spectacular and exciting. Emma Freud, Michaela Strachan, narrators
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1994
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Space Ark
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Earth Images
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BBC Primary Science Project
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http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/592120
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Teaching science skills through television.
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1994
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Cats’ Eyes
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BBC
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BBC Primary Science Project
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0831357/
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A pizza shop owner bothered by two cats whose antics lead to scientific topics taught to the viewer. Comedian Rowland Rivron as Alf
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1996
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Lost Animals
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Clark Television, Atlas Adventures and Project Team Co Ltd
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Channel 4 Schools
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http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/622144
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Telling the story of 50 of the animals that became extinct in the twentieth century – including the Barbary Lion and the Tasmanian Wolf.
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1995
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Making Sense of Science
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Software Production Enterprises
www.spe.co.uk/spe.asp?section=projects&Det=details&Proj=17
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Channel 4 Schools
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Followup at:
www.azteachscience.co.uk/projects/making-sense-of-primary-science-spe-ltd-innovative-project.aspx
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Channel 4 Schools Autumn 1995, Autumn 1996, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998 and three overnight broadcasts. In 1996 Making Sense of Science became the most popular series for teachers ever broadcast. Screenings at seminars and Making Sense of Science - In Practice events organised by SPE.
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1996
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Technology Starters
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CASE Television
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BBC
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Our presenter tramps Europe, finding that Napoleon was behind a remarkable number of technological developments, from A roads to canned food.
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1999
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Pl@net.com; education for sustainable development
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Evans Woolfe
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Channel 4 Schools
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The original idea of Malcolm Ward, C4 Education Officer. The first schools programme to highlight environmental responsibility.
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2003
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The Blue Dragon
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Glasshead
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C4L
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A lost dragon is helped by a gang of willing animals in a cartoon series for 4-7s. Jane Horrocks and Andrew Sachs provide all the voices
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2006
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Look Around You
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BBC
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v=n2k9JwGpm1w
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Wonderful spoof on schools science programmes.
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