Scene: Sonia Lannaman

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started15th Feb 1979

last rpt3rd Oct 1980

3 school years

episodes1

duration20 mins

subject ⚖️Citizenship

age rangeAge 13-16

languageenIn English

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

British sprinter Sonia Lannaman talks about the triumphs and failures of her career duing the 1970s.

Scene had previously met Sonia in the programme Sonia and the Olympic Games prior to the Munich Olympics. This follow-up programme was shown in 1979 and features the athlete talking about her career up to the 1978 European Championships. It was slightly re-edited in autumn 1980 to include her thoughts on the 1980 Moscow Olympics at which she won a bronze medal.

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Scene: Sonia and the Olympic Games

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