The English Programme

1. Minorities: Now That the Buffalo's Gone

Air Date: 1976-09-20

A report on the past and present of the American Indian.

2. Minorities: Black Man's Burden

Air Date: 1976-09-27

3. Minorities: Limits to Growth

Air Date: 1976-10-04

4. Minorities: Sunday and Monday in Silence

Air Date: 1976-10-11

5. Minorities: Literacy

Air Date: 1976-10-18

6. Minorities: Identity

Air Date: 1976-10-25

7. Minorities: Unemployment

Air Date: 1976-11-01

8. Minorities: Theatre in Education

Air Date: 1976-11-08

9. Minorities: Migrant Workers

Air Date: 1976-11-15

1. The Pressures of Life: The Piano - Part 1

Air Date: 1977-09-19

2. The Pressures of Life: The Piano - Part 2

Air Date: 1977-09-26

3. The Pressures of Life: Speech Day - Part 1

Air Date: 1977-10-03

4. The Pressures of Life: Speech Day - Part 2

Air Date: 1977-10-10

5. The Pressures of Life: Barry Hines

Air Date: 1977-10-17

1. Viewpoint: Viewpoints on Viewpoint

Air Date: 1977-10-24

2. Viewpoint: Communication is Control

Air Date: 1977-10-31

3. Viewpoint: Money Talks

Air Date: 1977-11-07

4. Viewpoint: Love Story

Air Date: 1977-11-14

5. Viewpoint: The Real Thing

Air Date: 1977-11-21

1. Romeo and Juliet: Prologue to Act I Scene 3

Air Date: 1978-01-09

2. Romeo and Juliet: Act I Scene 3 to Act II Scene 1

Air Date: 1978-01-16

3. Romeo and Juliet: Act II Scene 2 to Act II Scene 4

Air Date: 1978-01-23

4. Romeo and Juliet: Act II Scene 4 to Act III Scene 1

Air Date: 1978-01-30

5. Romeo and Juliet: Act III Scene 2 to Act III Scene 4

Air Date: 1978-02-06

6. Romeo and Juliet: Act III Scene 5 to Act IV Scene 1

Air Date: 1978-02-13

7. Romeo and Juliet: Act IV Scene 2 to Act V Scene 1

Air Date: 1978-02-20

8. Romeo and Juliet: Act V Scene 2 to Act V Scene 3

Air Date: 1978-02-27

9. Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare and his Theatre - Part 1

Air Date: 1978-03-06

10. Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare and his Theatre - Part 2

Air Date: 1978-03-13

1. Language: Which English?

Air Date: 1978-04-17

2. Language: Language Rules!

Air Date: 1978-04-24

3. Language: Says Who?

Air Date: 1978-05-01

4. Language: Cold Print

Air Date: 1978-05-08

5. Language: True Stories

Air Date: 1978-05-15

1. Authorship: The Workings of Literature 1

Air Date: 1979-01-17

2. Authorship: The Workings of Literature 2

Air Date: 1979-01-24

3. Authorship: The Quality of Literature

Air Date: 1979-01-31

4. Authorship: The Purpose of Literature

Air Date: 1979-02-07

5. Authorship: The Readers and Writers of Literature

Air Date: 1979-02-14

1. Culture: British Culture?

Air Date: 1979-05-02

2. Culture: Working People

Air Date: 1979-05-09

3. Culture: Women

Air Date: 1979-05-16

4. Culture: Images of America

Air Date: 1979-05-23

1. Working: The Boy with the Transistor Radio

Air Date: 1980-02-26

2. Working: Good Prospects

Air Date: 1980-03-04

3. Working: Strike

Air Date: 1980-03-11

4. Working: George and Mildred

Air Date: 1980-03-18

5. Working: Emmerdale Farm

Air Date: 1980-03-25

1. Our People: Immigrant

Air Date: 1980-04-22

2. Our People: Facts?

Air Date: 1980-04-29

3. Our People: A Long Way to Work

Air Date: 1980-05-06

4. Our People: Discussion

Air Date: 1980-05-13

1. Macbeth: Opening to Act I Scene 5

Air Date: 1980-09-24

2. Macbeth: Act I Scene 3 to Act II Scene 3

Air Date: 1980-10-01

3. Macbeth: Act II Scene 3 to Act IV Scene 1

Air Date: 1980-10-08

4. Macbeth: Act III Scene 3 to Act IV Scene 1

Air Date: 1980-10-15

5. Macbeth: Act IV Scene 1 to Act IV Scene 3

Air Date: 1980-10-22

6. Macbeth: Act V Scene 1 to End

Air Date: 1980-10-29

1. Viewpoint 2: Young Once

Air Date: 1980-11-12

A personal view on young people and the media by Stuart Hall, featuring fashion, lifestyle, music and cinema.

2. Viewpoint 2: The Whites of Their Eyes

Air Date: 1980-11-19

3. Viewpoint 2: Real to Reel

Air Date: 1980-11-26

4. Viewpoint 2: Signing On

Air Date: 1980-12-03

1. Writing: Funny Turns with Victoria Wood

Air Date: 1981-03-04

2. Writing: In the Office Something Stirs

Air Date: 1981-03-11

3. Writing: My Comprehensive Education

Air Date: 1981-03-18

4. Writing: The Death of Gobbledygook

Air Date: 1981-03-25

5. Writing: What's News?

Air Date: 1981-04-01

1. One World Documentaries: Jonathan Dimbleby - One World

Air Date: 1981-05-05

2. One World Documentaries: Brazil - Children of the Miracle

Air Date: 1981-05-12

3. One World Documentaries: Bolivia - The Tin Mountain

Air Date: 1981-05-19

4. One World Documentaries: Peru - The Revolution that Failed

Air Date: 1981-05-26

1. Poetry: I See a Voice

Air Date: 1981-09-21

John Cooper-Clarke, Paul Weller, Frankie Armstrong and Adrian Mitchell feature in this first programme in a unit on poetry from the Thames Television schools series.

2. Poetry: Questions of Love

Air Date: 1981-09-28

3. Poetry: Fighting Back

Air Date: 1981-10-05

4. Poetry: Images of Dockland

Air Date: 1981-10-12

5. Poetry: Poems of the Last War

Air Date: 1981-10-19

1. Power: A Little Patch of Ground

Air Date: 1981-11-02

2. Power: The Protectors

Air Date: 1981-11-09

3. Power: Power

Air Date: 1981-11-16

4. Power: My Sister's Eighteenth

Air Date: 1981-11-23

5. Power: Pantomime

Air Date: 1981-11-30

1. Set Books: To Kill a Mockingbird - The Town and the Thirties

Air Date: 1982-09-20

2. Set Books: To Kill a Mockingbird - The Author and her Characters

Air Date: 1982-09-27

3. Set Books: Joby

Air Date: 1982-10-04

4. Set Books: The Pearl

Air Date: 1982-10-11

5. Set Books: Lord of the Flies

Air Date: 1982-10-18

1. Language 2: 'Ow We Spake

Air Date: 1983-01-10

2. Language 2: Words Fail Us!

Air Date: 1983-01-17

3. Language 2: Language in a Store

Air Date: 1983-01-24

4. Language 2: Falkland Tales

Air Date: 1983-01-31

5. Language 2: Write it Down

Air Date: 1983-02-07

1. Nuclear Issues: The Bomb

Air Date: 1983-04-25

2. Nuclear Issues: Protect and Survive?

Air Date: 1983-05-02

3. Nuclear Issues: Apocalypse Now?

Air Date: 1983-05-11

4. Nuclear Issues: What a Terrible Waste

Air Date: 1983-05-18

1. Understanding Television: How Did That Get on the Box?

Air Date: 1983-09-19

2. Understanding Television: Three Days to Transmission

Air Date: 1983-09-26

3. Understanding Television: Setting up a Service

Air Date: 1983-10-03

4. Understanding Television: Minder and its Audience

Air Date: 1983-10-10

5. Understanding Television: Television in Holland

Air Date: 1983-10-17

1. Identities: Derek

Air Date: 1984-01-16

2. Identities: Audition

Air Date: 1984-01-23

3. Identities: Lindsey - Part 1

Air Date: 1984-01-30

4. Identities: Lindsey - Part 2

Air Date: 1984-02-06

5. Identities: The Rainbow Coloured Disco Dancer

Air Date: 1984-02-13

1. Nuclear Issues 2: The War About Peace - Part 1

Air Date: 1984-04-30

2. Nuclear Issues 2: The War about Peace - Part 2

Air Date: 1984-05-07

3. Nuclear Issues 2: Woman to Woman

Air Date: 1984-05-14

4. Nuclear Issues 2: A Day in May

Air Date: 1984-05-21

1. Class Readers: The Friends

Air Date: 1984-09-17

2. Class Readers: Friedrich

Air Date: 1984-09-24

3. Class Readers: Seeing a Beauty Queen Home

Air Date: 1984-10-01

4. Class Readers: A Passage to the East End

Air Date: 1984-10-08

5. Class Readers: It's My Life

Air Date: 1984-10-15

1. 1984: A Personal View of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four - Anthony Burgess

Air Date: 1985-02-25

2. 1984: Plenty - Eric Bogosian

Air Date: 1985-03-04

3. 1984: Peace - Zdena Tomin

Air Date: 1985-03-11

4. 1984: Love - The Watched

Air Date: 1985-03-18

5. 1984: Truth - Phillip Knightley

Air Date: 1985-03-25

1. Sex Equality: A Woman's Life - What's New?

Air Date: 1985-04-22

2. Sex Equality: Through Our Eyes

Air Date: 1985-04-29

3. Sex Equality: A Man's Place - Part 1

Air Date: 1985-05-06

4. Sex Equality: A Man's Place - Part 2

Air Date: 1985-05-13

1. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Struggle for the Valley

Air Date: 1985-09-18

2. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Noble Child

Air Date: 1985-09-25

3. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Flight into the Mountains

Air Date: 1985-10-02

4. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: In the Northern Mountains

Air Date: 1985-10-09

5. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Story of the Judge

Air Date: 1985-10-16

6. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Chalk Circle

Air Date: 1985-10-23

1. Comprehension: The Writing of Spitting Image

Air Date: 1986-01-08

2. Comprehension: To Reason Why

Air Date: 1986-01-15

3. Comprehension: Mummy's Tomb

Air Date: 1986-01-22

4. Comprehension: Tray, Pattern, Order and Cloze

Air Date: 1986-01-29

5. Comprehension: Today in Prison

Air Date: 1986-02-05

1. Poets International: Five Poems by Ted Hughes

Air Date: 1986-09-17

2. Poets International: Drum, Talk and Dub

Air Date: 1986-09-24

3. Poets International: Miroslav Holub - At Least There'll Be a Draught

Air Date: 1986-10-01

4. Poets International: The Belle of Amherst - Part 1

Air Date: 1986-10-08

5. Poets International: The Belle of Amherst - Part 2

Air Date: 1986-10-15

1. Understanding Television 2: Every Shot, Every Angle

Air Date: 1987-01-21

2. Understanding Television 2: Are They All the Same?

Air Date: 1987-01-28

3. Understanding Television 2: Guidelines

Air Date: 1987-02-04

4. Understanding Television 2: How Do You View?

Air Date: 1987-02-11

1. Voices in the Dark: Part 1

Air Date: 1987-04-29

2. Voices in the Dark: Part 2

Air Date: 1987-05-06

3. Voices in the Dark: Discussion

Air Date: 1987-05-13

1. Oral Communication: What Can I Say?

Air Date: 1987-09-14

2. Oral Communication: Doing it for Real

Air Date: 1987-09-21

3. Oral Communication: Speaking Up

Air Date: 1987-09-28

4. Oral Communication: A Question of Talk

Air Date: 1987-10-05

1. Of Mice and Men: Part 1

Air Date: 1988-01-11

2. Of Mice and Men: Part 2

Air Date: 1988-01-18

3. Of Mice and Men: Part 3

Air Date: 1988-01-25

4. Of Mice and Men: Part 4

Air Date: 1988-02-01

5. Of Mice and Men: Part 5

Air Date: 1988-02-08

1. Contemporary Drama: South - Part 1

Air Date: 1988-03-14

The first episode of a two-part "soap bubble" that follows two Brookside characters to London looking for new opportunities. It was written especially for The English Programme and most Brookside viewers were unaware of its existence.

2. Contemporary Drama: South - Part 2

Air Date: 1988-03-21

The final episode of a two-part "soap bubble" that follows two Brookside characters to London looking for new opportunities. It was written especially for The English Programme and most Brookside viewers were unaware of its existence.

1. GCSE Literature: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Air Date: 1988-09-19

2. GCSE Literature: Brighton Rock

Air Date: 1988-09-26

3. GCSE Literature: Animal Farm

Air Date: 1988-10-03

4. GCSE Literature: A Chip of Glass Ruby

Air Date: 1988-10-10

5. GCSE Literature: Five Stories of an Hour

Air Date: 1988-10-17

6. GCSE Literature: Odour of Chrysanthemums

Air Date: 1988-10-24

1. Models of Writing: Reporting

Air Date: 1989-01-09

2. Models of Writing: Argument and Persuasion

Air Date: 1989-01-16

3. Models of Writing: Reviewing

Air Date: 1989-01-23

4. Models of Writing: Information and Instruction

Air Date: 1989-01-30

1. Understanding Newspapers: News Values, Whose Values?

Air Date: 1989-09-25

2. Understanding Newspapers: Every Picture Tells a Story

Air Date: 1989-10-02

3. Understanding Newspapers: Hot Off the Press

Air Date: 1989-10-09

1. Television Plays: The Snow Queen - Part 1

Air Date: 1990-03-19

2. Television Plays: The Snow Queen - Part 2

Air Date: 1990-03-26

1. Knowing about Language: Changing Voices

Air Date: 1990-09-17

2. Knowing about Language: That's Funny

Air Date: 1990-09-24

3. Knowing about Language: Who Says So?

Air Date: 1990-10-01

4. Knowing about Language: Over a Thousand Years

Air Date: 1990-10-08

1. Wider Reading: Ordinary People

Air Date: 1991-01-07

2. Wider Reading: Good for a Laugh

Air Date: 1991-01-14

3. Wider Reading: Fighting for a Cause

Air Date: 1991-01-21

4. Wider Reading: Not Here, Not Now... But Maybe

Air Date: 1991-01-28

1. INSET: Approaches to Literature

Air Date: 1991-09-16

2. INSET: Knowledge about Language

Air Date: 1991-09-23

3. INSET: Assessment - English for Key Stages 1-4

Air Date: 1991-09-30

1. Poetry and the Making: Notes of Woe

Air Date: 1992-01-13

2. Poetry and the Making: Images of London

Air Date: 1992-01-20

3. Poetry and the Making: Voices of Thomas Hardy

Air Date: 1992-01-27

4. Poetry and the Making: The Lady of Shalott

Air Date: 1992-02-03

5. Poetry and the Making: The Charge of the Light Brigade

Air Date: 1992-02-10

1. Have Fun: Part 1

Air Date: 1992-04-27

2. Have Fun: Part 2

Air Date: 1992-05-11

3. Have Fun: The Writing and Making of Have Fun

Air Date: 1992-05-18

1. Women Writers: Anne McCaffrey

Air Date: 1993-02-08

2. Women Writers: Nadine Gordimer

Air Date: 1993-02-15

3. Women Writers: Keri Hulme

Air Date: 1993-02-22

1. Powerful Texts: My Left Foot

Air Date: 1993-09-20

2. Powerful Texts: Nineteen Fifty-Five

Air Date: 1993-09-27

3. Powerful Texts: A Modest Proposal

Air Date: 1993-10-04

4. Powerful Texts: Just Seventeen

Air Date: 1993-10-11

5. Powerful Texts: The Burnt Driver

Air Date: 1993-10-18

1. Writing Non-Fiction: Essays

Air Date: 1994-01-10

2. Writing Non-Fiction: Biography

Air Date: 1994-01-17

3. Writing Non-Fiction: Letters

Air Date: 1994-01-24

4. Writing Non-Fiction: Travel

Air Date: 1994-01-31

5. Writing Non-Fiction: Diary

Air Date: 1994-02-07

1. Somewhere to Run: Part 1

Air Date: 1994-03-07

2. Somewhere to Run: Part 2

Air Date: 1994-03-14

3. Somewhere to Run: Part 3

Air Date: 1994-03-21

1. The Glittering Haze: The Thirty-Second Culture

Air Date: 1994-04-18

2. The Glittering Haze: Ads with an Attitude

Air Date: 1994-04-25

3. The Glittering Haze: The Jeans Machine

Air Date: 1994-05-02

4. The Glittering Haze: Burning the Rules

Air Date: 1994-05-09

5. The Glittering Haze: Playing the Part

Air Date: 1994-05-16

1. The Channel 4 Anthology: A Matter of Life and Death

Air Date: 1994-09-26

2. The Channel 4 Anthology: News Desk

Air Date: 1994-10-03

3. The Channel 4 Anthology: I Tell You I Don't Love You

Air Date: 1994-10-10

4. The Channel 4 Anthology: Going Places

Air Date: 1994-10-17

5. The Channel 4 Anthology: A Person is a Person

Air Date: 1994-10-24

6. The Channel 4 Anthology: Competition Winners

Air Date: 1994-10-31

1. Hobson's Choice: Part 1

Air Date: 1994-11-07

2. Hobson's Choice: Part 2

Air Date: 1994-11-14

3. Hobson's Choice: Part 3

Air Date: 1994-11-21

4. Hobson's Choice: Part 4

Air Date: 1994-11-28

1. Reel Truth?: The Hall of Mirrors

Air Date: 1995-11-06

2. Reel Truth?: Rumours of War

Air Date: 1995-11-13

3. Reel Truth?: Pictures of Power

Air Date: 1995-11-20

4. Reel Truth?: At the Edge of the Frame

Air Date: 1995-11-27

1. Five Authors: Sylvia Plath

Air Date: 1996-05-13

2. Five Authors: Dylan Thomas

Air Date: 1996-05-20

3. Five Authors: Charles Dickens

Air Date: 1996-05-27

4. Five Authors: Maya Angelou

Air Date: 1996-06-03

5. Five Authors: Nadine Gordimer

Air Date: 1996-06-10

1. Modern American Poets: William Carlos Williams

Air Date: 1996-06-04

2. Modern American Poets: Gary Snyder

Air Date: 1996-06-11

3. Modern American Poets: Frank O'Hara

Air Date: 1996-06-18

4. Modern American Poets: Allen Ginsberg

Air Date: 1996-06-25

5. Modern American Poets: Amiri Baraka

Air Date: 1996-07-02

1. Irish Writers: Bernard MacLaverty

Air Date: 1996-09-19

2. Irish Writers: Brian Moore

Air Date: 1996-09-26

3. Irish Writers: Maeve Binchy

Air Date: 1996-10-03

4. Irish Writers: Michael Longley

Air Date: 1996-10-10

5. Irish Writers: Edna O'Brien

Air Date: 1996-10-17

1. Mirad, a Boy from Bosnia: Part 1

Air Date: 1997-01-06

2. Mirad, a Boy from Bosnia: Part 2

Air Date: 1997-01-13

1. Scottish Writers: Iain Banks

Air Date: 1997-01-09

2. Scottish Writers: Liz Lochhead

Air Date: 1997-01-16

3. Scottish Writers: William McIlvanney

Air Date: 1997-01-23

4. Scottish Writers: A L Kennedy

Air Date: 1997-01-30

5. Scottish Writers: Iain Crichton Smith

Air Date: 1997-02-06

1. Not as Good as the Book: Pride and Prejudice

Air Date: 1997-02-10

2. Not as Good as the Book: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Air Date: 1997-02-24

3. Not as Good as the Book: Jane Eyre

Air Date: 1997-03-03

4. Not as Good as the Book: Great Expectations

Air Date: 1997-03-10

5. Not as Good as the Book: Frankenstein

Air Date: 1997-03-17

1. Gulliver's Travels: Part 1

Air Date: 1997-05-15

2. Gulliver's Travels: Part 2

Air Date: 1997-05-22

3. Gulliver's Travels: Part 3

Air Date: 1997-05-29

4. Gulliver's Travels: Part 4

Air Date: 1997-06-02

1. William Wordsworth

Air Date: 1998-01-26

1. Science Fiction: H G Wells

Air Date: 1998-02-02

2. Science Fiction: Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Air Date: 1998-02-09

1. Passwords: Simon Armitage

Air Date: 1998-09-21

2. Passwords: Carol Ann Duffy

Air Date: 1998-09-28

3. Passwords: Ted Hughes

Air Date: 1998-10-05

4. Passwords: Hearts and Partners

Air Date: 1998-10-12

5. Passwords: When the Going Gets Tough

Air Date: 1998-10-19

1. Behind the Scenes at the RSC: The Stage

Air Date: 1998-11-02

2. Behind the Scenes at the RSC: The Players

Air Date: 1998-11-09

1. Dark Tales: Outsiders

Air Date: 1999-01-11

2. Dark Tales: Cities at Night

Air Date: 1999-01-18

3. Dark Tales: Masks

Air Date: 1999-01-25

1. Film Focus - The Making of a Blockbuster: Pre-Production

Air Date: 1999-11-15

2. Film Focus - The Making of a Blockbuster: Production

Air Date: 1999-11-22

3. Film Focus - The Making of a Blockbuster: Post-Production

Air Date: 1999-11-29

1. Dockers: The Creation of the Script 1

Air Date: 2000-01-20

2. Dockers: The Creation of the Script 2

Air Date: 2000-01-27

3. Dockers: Part 1

Air Date: 2000-02-03

4. Dockers: Part 2

Air Date: 2000-02-10

5. Dockers: Part 3

Air Date: 2000-02-17

1. Film Focus - The Films of Baz Luhrmann: Strictly Ballroom

Air Date: 2000-05-08

2. Film Focus - The Films of Baz Luhrmann: Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 2000-05-15

1. Writers from Wales: Film and Television Drama

Air Date: 2000-05-10

2. Writers from Wales: Prose

Air Date: 2000-05-17

3. Writers from Wales: Poetry

Air Date: 2000-05-24

4. Writers from Wales: Factual Writing

Air Date: 2000-05-31

5. Writers from Wales: Theatre

Air Date: 2000-06-14

1. Classic Short Prose: The Tell Tale Heart

Air Date: 2000-09-20

2. Classic Short Prose: Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit

Air Date: 2000-09-27

3. Classic Short Prose: Your Shoes

Air Date: 2000-10-04

1. The Gift of the Gab: Screenwriting

Air Date: 2001-05-16

2. The Gift of the Gab: Playwriting

Air Date: 2001-05-23

3. The Gift of the Gab: Journalists

Air Date: 2001-05-30

4. The Gift of the Gab: Poets

Air Date: 2001-06-06

5. The Gift of the Gab: Prose Writers

Air Date: 2001-06-13

1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Air Date: 2002-05-23

1. Film Focus - Animation: An English Classic

Air Date: 2003-03-06

2. Film Focus - Animation: Food Commercials

Air Date: 2003-03-13

3. Film Focus - Animation: A Disney Feature Film

Air Date: 2003-03-20

1. Film Focus - 21st Century Bard (The Making of Twelfth Night): The Business of Film

Air Date: 2003-10-03

2. Film Focus - 21st Century Bard (The Making of Twelfth Night): The Art of Film

Air Date: 2003-10-10

3. Film Focus - 21st Century Bard (The Making of Twelfth Night): The Language of Film

Air Date: 2003-10-17

4. Film Focus - 21st Century Bard (The Making of Twelfth Night): The Technology of Film

Air Date: 2003-10-24