Scene: Alone on the Moors

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started4th Dec 1975

last rpt24th Jun 1983

8 school years

episodes1

duration20 mins

subject ⚖️Citizenship

age rangeAge 13-16

languageenIn English

Scene

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Alone on the Moors is an episode of the BBC schools TV series Scene from the 1970s and 1980s, covering citizenship for secondary school pupils.

A boy decides to change his Saturday afternoon routine by going up onto the moors where adventure awaits. But when the weather changes he gets into serious difficulties.

From the teacher's notes

"Glyn Hughes is a poet, who lives in a Yorkshire village surrounded by moorland. The film was made on the moors near Hallifax with the co-operation of the Calder Valley Moorland Rescue Association." - Scene teacher's notes autumn 1977 p.2.

Credits

Written by

Glyn Hughes

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