The Penny Programme
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started11th Jan
1971
ended25th Mar
1971
1 school year
episodes22
duration10 mins
subject
⚖️CitizenshipEconomics
age rangeAge 7-9
languageenIn English
The Penny Programme is a BBC schools radio series from the 1970s, covering Economics for primary school pupils.
- "specially prepared for the term during which Britain changes to decimal currency"
- the BBC also produced series for adults dealing with the change to decimal currency, including Decimal Points, broadcast on Radio 3 in late 1970 & early 1971, and New Money, broadcast on BBC1 and BBC2 for two weeks in January & February 1971
More
Do you know more about this programme?
Do you know anything that I have missed? Do you have pictures, sounds or videos that fill in gaps? Please get in touch by email!
Want more on this programme?
This site attempts to cover thousands of programmes and it will take ages to update them all. If you would like to see this one updated soon please click on the star to 'vote' for it and I will do my best to prioritise it!
Voting is currently (2026) broken. I'm not sure why. I'll fix it if I can! You can still see a list of all the votes so far.
More programmes
Some random programmes for age 7-9 from the 1970s
