Wordplay
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC
started18th Sep
1990
ended18th Jun
1994
4 school years
duration10 mins
subject
📚English
age rangeAge 7-9
languageenIn English
Wordplay is a BBC schools radio series from the 1990s, covering English for primary school pupils.
- replaced Pictures in Your Mind
- repeated for a year as Verseplay, then incorporated into Words Alive!
- an unrelated series called Wordplay: That'd be Telling ran from 1977 to 1982
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