Scene: Sent Away from Home

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started24th Feb 1972

last rpt1st Nov 1973

3 school years

episodes1

duration20 mins

subject ⚖️Citizenship

age rangeAge 13-16

languageenIn English

"Narrator" is not in the list (Archive footage, Studio based, Location, Puppets, Model animation, Drawn animation, 3D animation) of allowed values for the "Visual content" property.

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Sent Away from Home is an episode of the BBC schools TV series Scene from the 1970s, covering citizenship for secondary school pupils.

The second of two documentaries about life during the Second World War, this programme focusses on the experiences of children in wartime including evacuation and school life. The actor Michael Caine discusses his experience.

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