Date |
Event |
Themes |
Source |
17 th of July 1972 |
Granada ‘World in Action’
documentary A Well Kept Secret |
Public awareness-raising |
Article by Alex Withnall and adult
learner informant recalled it in a group discussion. He remembered
and identifies with a milkman who couldn’t read or write.
First time he had seen it in the public domain |
?Pre-BBC Campaign |
ITV Thames TV Item on magazine show
Good Afternoon with feedback possibility |
Public awareness-raising, referral
for volunteers |
Interview with informant involved at
the BBC |
Early 1974 |
Teaching Adults to Read Radio 4
8 programmes |
Recruitment and Pre-training for volunteers
in preparation for the “On The Move” campaign programmes
|
Interview with two informants involved
at the BBC |
October 1975 (repeated the next year)
|
Launch of On the Move
Produced by David Hargreaves |
Media awareness raising and referral
of potential learners |
Interview with informant involved at
the BBC .
Participants in 3 Group Interviews all mentioned “On the
Move” |
October 1976 (repeated the next year)
|
Your Move Radio 2
20 x 25 min programmes |
Tutor Support |
Interviews with two informants involved
at the BBC |
1976-7 |
Next Move - Radio 2 |
Readings aimed at tutors |
Interviews with two informants involved
at the BBC |
?last in the sequence |
Move On – Radio 2 |
Readings aimed at tutors |
Interviews with two informants involved
at the BBC |
October 1977 |
Parosi
BBC TV series produced by Robert Clamp |
ESOL (Hindustani) |
Documents (Workbook) Interview with
two Key informants, one involved with ESOL practice, one from the
BBC/practitioner interviews |
1978-ish |
Figure It out BBC Series |
Early ancestor of numeracy programming
|
Interviews with key informant involved
at the BBC |
1987 |
Make It Count YTV produced by Peter
Scroggs |
Numeracy Series, with back up materials
from NEC |
Documents: Sargant, 1990, p.13 |
1978-9 |
Speak for Yourself
BBC produced series |
Aimed at wider range of community languages
|
Documents (Paper written by practitioner)
Interview with informant at the BBC. |
Date |
Event |
Themes |
Source –Official Interview |
1983 |
Make It Count Ch4 (updated from original
YTV programmes) |
Numeracy Series, with back up materials
from NEC |
Documents: Sargant, 1990, p.38 |
1983 |
Numbers At Work Ch4 |
Employment related Numeracy series
|
Documents: Sargant, 1990, p.38; BMRB
research report, Sept 1983. |
1983 |
Counting On Ch4, series of 10 programmes
|
Next stage numeracy |
Documents: Sargant, 1990, p.38 |
1984/1985
(3 seasons) |
Switch onto English
Programme aired on Sundays on BBC1 at
10.30-10.55 am (13 January-17 March)
Wednesdays, on BBC2, at 12.55-1.20 p.m (16 January-27 March) |
Supporting ESOL teaching |
Documents (Workbook) Interviews with
two informants, one at the BBC, one practitioner. |
1985-6 |
Write Now |
Supporting Writing |
Interviews with two informants at the
BBC. |
1986 |
Write On YTV /Channel 4. Series of
10 programmes |
Supporting Writing, in association
with the NEC and ALBSU |
Documents: Minutes of planning meetings/Informant
from Ch4; Sargant 1990:p 66 |
1987-8 |
BBC TV Spelling It Out |
Supporting Spelling |
Interviews with informant at the BBC,
one practitioner. |
1986 or 7 |
Granada/ITV World in Action Documentary
Starting at the Bottom |
MORI poll on extent of need in Rochdale.
Also drew on National Child Development Survey work at Lancaster
|
(Documents: video) Member of project
team was involved. |
1989 |
Two BBC series Stepping Up and Step
up to WordPower and Number Power with linked publication. |
Linked to new student accreditation
initiatives validated by City and Guilds |
Interview with informant seconded to
the BBC to work on this. |
Date |
Event |
Themes |
Source –Official Interview |
1992
10am on Sundays |
BBC Inside English
8 programmes
plus video and trainers notes
Direct teaching of ESOL |
Linked to HMI Report Bilingual Adults
in Education and Training
Aimed at learners and teachers |
Documents: ALBSU report 1992 |
February 1995 |
Read and Write Together One week organized
by ALBSU and BBC - 4 programmes plus series of short ads?. |
Linked to ALBSU Family Literacy Initiative.
Raising public awareness and to train teachers to understand family
literacy |
Documents (ALBSU Family Literacy Newsletter;
Paper written by practitioner informant); interview with informant
at BBC |
1997-8 |
Count Me In – BBC. Programmes
launched with accompanying CD Rom |
Numeracy support, BSA involved |
Interview with ex BBC informant who
developed the programme/practitioner interviews |
1998 – Feb? |
Brookie Basics, Ch 4
Soap Storyline in Brookside (Also similar on in East Enders on
ITV around same time) With referral line and follow-up materials
|
Part of the activities for the National
Year of Reading organized by the National Literacy Trust |
Documents (workbooks and video) Pilot
Interview with learner.
London LSERN Group member |
2000 |
Gremlins Campaign promotional campaign
“get on” by DfES. Part of Skills for life Strategy |
Raising public awareness, referral
to Learn Direct hotline. |
Documents (publicity materials) LSERN
comment “horror of how this would help things move forwards”.
However some pilot interviewees thought it was good but wouldn’t
use call up the helpline. |