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What sort of programmes does BBC Television provide for younger children at school?
Series for primary schools include Merry-go-Round and Signpost.

1.46 Merry-Go-Round
A series for children of seven to nine years old which is designed to widen horizons and to stimulate creative work of all sorts, including writing.
Part 1: Port Holiday: 5
The end of the holiday.

Part 2: A Smuggler's Song
by Rudyard Kipling.
Previously shown in February

2.6 Signpost: Village in the Mountains
Written and produced by F. R. Elwell.
A series designed for children of nine to eleven years old, designed to increase their awareness of a rapidly widening world.
Today's programme is a preview of a group of programmes, specially shot in Switzerland for School Television, which will be shown to schools later this year.
Life in the forests and mountains surrounding a Swiss village seen through the eyes of children who live there.
Commentary spoken by Stanley MacKenzie.

(to 14.26)

Contributors

Poet (Merry-Go-Round:
A Smuggler's Song): Rudyard Kipling
Reader (Merry-Go-Round):
A Smuggler's Song): Charles E. Stidwill
Film cameraman (Merry-Go-Round):
Eric Deeming
Film editor (Merry-Go-Round):
Robert Hill
Director (Merry-Go-Round):
Joy Whitby
Producer (Merry-Go-Round):
Claire Chovil
Script (Port Holiday):
Barbara Willard
Film cameraman (Port Holiday):
John McGlashan
Marejke:
Antonia Moss
Piet:
Kaplan Kaye
Laurens:
Edward Fox
Writer/producer (Signpost):
F. R. Elwell
Film cameraman (Signpost):
Bill Munn
Film editor (Signpost):
Sylvia Wheeler
Narrator (Signpost):
Stanley MacKenzie

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