For Rural Schools (England)
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started9th Jan
1940
endedJun
1948
9 school years
duration20 mins
subject
🌏Geography
languageenIn English
Programmes For Rural Schools (England)
Previous series: Our Parish Next series: Living in the Country 
Previous series: Our Parish Next series: Living in the Country For Rural Schools (England) is a BBC schools radio series from the 1940s, covering geography for primary and secondary school pupils.
- Replacing earlier individual series such as Discovering England, Our Country, Our Village and Our Parish
- A series called Let's Build a House had been planned for 1939-40, but was abandoned on the outbreak of war and replaced with general series For Rural Schools, particularly aimed at city children evacuated to the countryside.
- The autumn 1939 unit was called Living in the Country (not to be confused with the later series of the same name.
- Other units include Our Changing Country-side, Country Work and Country Ways, and Our Village in Wartime, a sequel to the 1937 series Our Village
- From 1943 until (at least) 1948 programmes were based around the fictional English village of Dylsford, and the children in the Dylsford School Explorers' Club.
- There was a separate For Rural Schools series for Scotland
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