Word Games (1982)

📻BBC Schools Radio

companyBBC

startedSep 1982

ended28th Nov 1994

13 school years

duration10 mins

subject 📚English

age rangeAge 9-11

languageenIn English

Word Games (1982) is a BBC schools radio series from the 1980s and 1990s, covering English for primary school pupils.

• broadcast regularly from autumn 1982 to summer 1986, but then off-air for 8 years until it returned in summer 1994
• another series called Word Games for the entire primary school was broadcast from 2001 to 2005

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