Mother Tongue Song and Story
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
startedJun
1982
ended8th Jun
1989
8 school years
duration10 mins
subject
🏫MiscellanyEarly Learning
age rangeAge 5-7
languageen/yue/bn/gu/pa/it/el/trIn English, In Cantonese, In Bengali, In Gujarati, In Punjabi, In Italian, In Greek & In Turkish
Mother Tongue Song and Story is a multi-language BBC schools radio series from the 1980s, covering early learning for primary school pupils.
- the first 'block broadcast' of programmes specifically to aid tape recording by teachers, in Summer 1982
- the same children's stories broadcast in English and in several Asian languages including Cantonese, Bengali, Gujarati & Punjabi, and Italian, Greek & Turkish
- originally intended for transmission as a single 75-minute programme in Summer 1982, but I'm not certain whether this was broadcast as several planned schools radio broadcasts were cancelled aroung this time
- transmitted as a series of 10-minute episodes in Autumn 1982
- known as just Mother Tongue Story until 1983
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