Our Village
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started23rd Sep
1937
ended30th Jun
1938
1 school year
duration20 mins
subject
🌏Geography
languageenIn English
Our Village is a BBC schools radio series from the 1930s, covering geography for primary and secondary school pupils.
- replaced Your Home and Mine
- replaced by Our Parish
- based in the imaginary village Stanwellstead
- a sequel, returning to Stanwellstead five years later in very different circumstances, was called Our Village in Wartime and broadcast as part of For Rural Schools in 1942-43. Teachers who still had the Our Village pamphlets were encouraged to re-use them.
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