WPFM
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started21st Sep
1988
ended20th Jun
1990
2 school years
duration55 mins & 30 mins
subject
⚖️Citizenship
age rangeAge 16-19
languageenIn English
WPFM is a BBC schools radio series from the 1980s and 1990s, covering citizenship for further education students.
- replaced Wavelength Plus
- weekly live magazine programme
- in 1988-89 broadcast for 55 minutes in England & Northern Ireland from 2:05-3:00pm, with Radio Scotland joining the programme at 2:25pm for 35 minutes
- in 1989-90 the programmes were reduced to 30 minutes at 2:05pm-2:35pm, and they were not broadcast in Scotland at all
- the series was never broadcast in Wales
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