Letterbox
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companySFTV
started23rd Sep
1993
ended14th May
1996
3 school years
duration10 mins
subject
📚English
languageenIn English
Letterbox is a BBC schools radio series from the 1990s, covering English for primary school pupils.
- introduction to letters of the alphabet, represented by characters such as Colin the carrot, Gazza the gorilla, Rusty the robot, Sandy the sock and Terry the tiger, and the main character Letterbox, "a box full of letters"
- focuses on the same letter as the episode of Words and Pictures broadcast in the same week
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