French Readings and Dialogues
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started23rd Sep
1929
ended28th Jun
1939
10 school years
duration15 mins & 20 mins
subject
💬LanguagesFrench Language
languagefrIn French
French Readings and Dialogues is a French-language BBC schools radio series from the 1920s and 1930s, covering French Language for secondary school and further education students.
- replaced Readings in Foreign Languages, along with German Readings and Dialogues
- all French series apart from Intermediate French were abandoned during war time; this series resumed after the war as French for Sixth Forms
- Originally known as French Readings and Dialogues, then as French for Older Pupils, then as French for Fifth and Sixth Forms, and later just French for Sixth Forms. Also billed in Scotland as French Talks and Dialogues.
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