In the News
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
startedSep
1982
ended16th Jun
1999
17 school years
duration25 mins & 20 mins
subject
⚖️CitizenshipCurrent Affairs
age rangeAge 9-11
languageenIn English
In the News is a BBC schools radio series from the 1980s and 1990s, covering Current Affairs for primary school pupils.
- normally broadcast live, but when all schools radio programmes moved to overnight transmission in autumn 1996 the programme was pre-recorded and broadcast "as live"
- in the early 1990s repeated during the evening on BBC Radio 5
- reduced from 25 to 20 minutes in autumn 1994
- after the last radio episodes were broadcast in summer 1999 the series was replaced by an In the News website, which was updated throughout the 1999-2000 school year, and in turn replaced by a Schools In The News website which was updated throughout the 2000-2001 school year - www.bbc.co.uk/education/inthenews
- effectively replaced by Have Your Say!
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