For the Middle Years

📻BBC Schools Radio

companyBBC

startedSep 1973

ended17th Mar 1978

5 school years

duration20 mins

subject 🏫Miscellany

age rangeAge 9-11 & Age 11-13

languageenIn English

For the Middle Years is a BBC schools radio series from the 1970s, covering various topics for primary and secondary school pupils.

• series combining a wide variety of unrelated, individual units on different topics
• the units were:
  • Autumn 1973: Roman Studies, An African Casebook
  • Spring 1974: Web of Language, More, More, More (about conservation)

• • Autumn 1974: Learning About Food, Animals Real and Unreal
  • Spring 1975: Into the Future, Young Europeans
  • Summer 1975: Think

• • Autumn 1975: Learning About Food (repeat), Web of Language (repeat)
  • Spring 1976: More, More, More (repeat), Inside Pages

• • Autumn 1976: Health and Hygiene, The Police, Think (repeat)
  • Spring 1977: Inside Pages, Green Gold: Plants and Plant Hunters, Questions and Answers
  • Summer 1977: Underground, Music in Southern Africa: Zulus and their Neighbours

• • Autumn 1977: Web of Language, Introducing the Law
  • Spring 1978: Inside Pages, Travelling People

• Inside Pages and Web of Language continued as series in their own right after For the Middle Years came to an end

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