BBC: educational broadcasts

Geography teachers have always been enthusiastic viewers of videos. The connections that the GA has with the production of these goes back to the beginning.

The BBC first started to explore educational broadcasts in 1924, shortly after it was founded. Sir Francis Younghusband (who I have mentioned elsewhere on the blog) contributed to a film called "Climbing Everest". Talks between the GA and the BBC included Fleure, Dudley Stamp, James Fairgrieve and G. R. Taylor. 'Travel Talks' were developed, and the early radio shows were hampered by a lack of visuals, which were needed for context.



References

“How B.B.C. Lectures and Films Are Utilised.” Geography, vol. 15, no. 8, 1930, pp. 672–672. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40559754.

Fairgrieve, J. “USE OF BROADCASTING IN TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN SCHOOLS.” Geography, vol. 16, no. 1, 1931, pp. 34–44. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40557798.