The British radio station has launched new educational contents in a bid to aid struggling parents homeschooling their children during the coronavirus lockdown.
- Apr 20, 2020
AceShowbiz - Bosses at BBC Radio 4 are launching a new programme of content to aid parents homeschooling their kids during the coronavirus lockdown.
The new shows will support education and learning whilst children are at home amid the COVID-19 crisis, with Mohit Bakaya, Controller of BBC Radio 4, insisting he wants "the station to do more for families to listen and learn together."
"We will present entertaining and informative programmes - new and archive - that are closely aligned with the school curriculum," he explained. "The BBC is supporting the nation with the biggest education package we've ever undertaken, and with these new programmes and selected highlights from our archive Radio 4 is helping people continue their learning as part of the BBC's expanded education efforts."
"Homeschool History With Greg Jenner", from the producers of much-loved Radio 4 podcast "You're Dead to Me", will provide 15-minute history lessons, with the "Horrible Histories" star describing the programme as a "short, lively, and funny narrative history aided by cheerful sound effects."
"Every episode is written in collaboration with an expert historian, and delivers a snappy lesson, with a mini quiz at the end, to help kids fall in love with history," he said.
Stuart Maconie will host quiz "My Generation", which focuses on the events and culture of different decades within living memory, while "Open Book and Front Row" is a series of specially-commissioned introductions by leading contemporary writers to nine great works of English literature, all of which are key texts in the GCSE syllabus.
Highlights from the "In Our Time" archive, exploring subjects particularly relevant to school and university students, including Marie Antoinette, Feathered Dinosaurs, Carl Friedrich Gauss "prince of mathematicians," and "Wuthering Heights", will also be broadcast, along with the popular science series, "The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry", which will investigate scientific mysteries relevant to the curriculum.
