Stories and Rhymes (1951)
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started20th Sep
1951
endedJun
1983
32 school years
duration20 mins & 10 mins
subject
📚English
age rangeAge 7-9
languageenIn English
Stories and Rhymes (1951) is a BBC schools radio series from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, covering English for primary school pupils.
- replaced English for Under-Nines
- replaced by Pictures in Your Mind
- expanded to two programmes per week from 1973: 20-minute Story programmes and 10-minute Poetry programmes
- a separate series for infants called Stories and Rhymes began in 1996
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