Landmarks: Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared

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📺BBC Schools TV
companyBBC
started5th Oct 1992
ended12th Oct 1992
last rpt19th Jun 1995
3 school years
episodes2
duration20 mins
subject 🏛️History
age rangeAge 9-12Age 9-11 & Age 11-13
languageenIn English
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Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared is a drama from the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s, covering history for Primary pupils.

In 1992 an American girl flies home from London. While waiting at the airport she encounters the ghost of Christopher Columbus, who tells her confidently about his voyages 500 years earlier.

The story of Columbus's attempts to organise his search for the east coast of Asia, then of the voyages themselves and his encounters with native people, is all told through a series of short scenes, linked by occasional questions from young Jodie and narration from Columbus himself who physically steps in to some of the scenes being enacted after speaking to the girl.

This drama was shown as part of the Landmarks unit Exploration and Encounters whih also included documentaries on 15th Century civilisation and European conquests.

  • Columbus talking to Jodie
    Columbus talking to Jodie
  • Recounting a meeting
    Recounting a meeting

Episode List

# Title Broadcast
1. drama Across the Ocean Sea #1992-10-05-00-00-005 Oct 1992
2. drama For God and for Gold #1992-10-12-00-00-0012 Oct 1992

Broadcasts

Year Term Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Channel Details
1992-93 Autumn 1992 Monday, 1:40pm Thursday, 11:10am BBC2 from 5 Oct
1994-95 Summer 1995 Monday, 11:20am Tuesday, 9:25am BBC2 from Tue 25 Apr & Mon 12 Jun

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BBC TV drama serials for junior topics

From Merry-Go-Round: Castors Away! (1967) • The Broken Sword (1968) • Tom's Midnight Garden (1968) • When Uncle Klaas Fell Over (1969) • The Raven and the Cross (1971) • The Viaduct (1972) • The Crocodile (1973) • The Raven and the Cross (1974) • The Sleepers on the Hill (1975)

From Zig Zag: Hungry Times (1983) • The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair (1987)

From Landmarks: Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared (1992) • The Gunpowder Plot, Plague! and Fire! (1985) see The History Trail
Landmarks (1988-2002)

Series Overview • Units • Episode List

Ancient Egypt (1997) • Britain Since 1930 (1994) • Buildings and Builders (1991) • The Caribbean (1998) • Changing Landscapes (1988) • Children at War (1989-92) • Children in Victorian Britain (2002) • Coping with the Climate (1994) • Earthwatch (1990) • Egypt (1989) • Exploration and Encounters (1992) • Follow the River Severn (1997) • Geography Postcards (2001) • The History of Writing and Printing (1991) • Investigating Local History (1996) • Over to You (1989-91) • Pakistan and Its People (1993-95) • People on the Move (1991) • Portrait of Britain (1995) • Portrait of Europe (1996) • Rivers of the World (1998) • Special Reports (1991) • Time Lines (1998) • Transport (1992) • Treasures of the Landscape (1992) • Tropical Rainforests (1990) • Tudors and Stuarts (1993) • Using the Land (2000) • Victorian Britain (1995) • Victorian Children (1991) • Weather Watch (1989) • World Environmental Changes (1999)

Drama: Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared (1992)

See also: Landmarks Shorts • Signed Landmarks • Landmarks in Urdu • Zig Zag • Primary Geography • Primary History

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