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.