January 12, 2025

BBC English by TV – Walter and Connie, Slim John and Follow Me

Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/resources/tv

by Richard Smith

On this new Warwick ELT Archive page you'll find information about 1960s–1980s English by TV programmes, and links to YouTube videos of episodes or extracts where available. For a snapshot of BBC English by Radio and Television production in 1977, see BBC Handbook 1977, pp. 62–63.Link opens in a new window

If you're in the UK, you can listen to a radio documentary – Do You Speak English?Link opens in a new windowabout BBC English by radio and TV, first broadcast on January 11th 2025.

As the documentary makes clear, the series listed below were very popular outside the UK. The stars of Walter and Conniewere greeted as celebrities on overseas visits, while Follow Meis said to have been watched by 500 million people in China when it was broadcast there from 1981 onwards.


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