The English Programme(1976–2003)

Viewpoint 2: Young Once

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

Viewpoint 2: The Whites of Their Eyes

Viewpoint 2: Real to Reel

The Pressures of Life: The Piano - Part 1

The Pressures of Life: The Piano - Part 2

The Pressures of Life: Speech Day - Part 1

The Pressures of Life: Speech Day - Part 2

Macbeth: Opening to Act I Scene 5

Macbeth: Act I Scene 3 to Act II Scene 3

Macbeth: Act II Scene 3 to Act IV Scene 1

Macbeth: Act III Scene 3 to Act IV Scene 1

Macbeth: Act IV Scene 1 to Act IV Scene 3

Working: The Boy with the Transistor Radio

Working: Good Prospects

Working: Strike

Working: George and Mildred

Viewpoint: Viewpoints on Viewpoint

Viewpoint: Communication is Control

Viewpoint: Money Talks

Viewpoint: Love Story

Authorship: The Workings of Literature 1

Authorship: The Workings of Literature 2

Authorship: The Quality of Literature

Authorship: The Purpose of Literature

Our People: Immigrant

Our People: Facts?

Our People: A Long Way to Work

Romeo and Juliet: Prologue to Act I Scene 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare and his Theatre - Part 1

Language: Which English?

Language: Language Rules!

Language: Says Who?

Language: Cold Print

Culture: British Culture?

Culture: Working People

Culture: Women

Poetry: I See a Voice

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.

Poetry: Questions of Love

Poetry: Fighting Back

Poetry: Images of Dockland

Minorities: Now That the Buffalo's Gone

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

Minorities: Black Man's Burden

Minorities: Limits to Growth

Minorities: Sunday and Monday in Silence

Minorities: Literacy

Minorities: Identity

Minorities: Unemployment

Minorities: Theatre in Education

Understanding Television: How Did That Get on the Box?

Understanding Television: Three Days to Transmission

Power: A Little Patch of Ground

Power: The Protectors

Power: Power

Power: My Sister's Eighteenth

Writing: Funny Turns with Victoria Wood

Writing: In the Office Something Stirs

Writing: My Comprehensive Education

Writing: The Death of Gobbledygook

Nuclear Issues: The Bomb

Nuclear Issues: Protect and Survive?

Nuclear Issues: Apocalypse Now?

Nuclear Issues 2: The War About Peace - Part 1

Nuclear Issues 2: The War about Peace - Part 2

The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Struggle for the Valley

The Caucasian Chalk Circle: The Noble Child

Poets International: Five Poems by Ted Hughes

Poets International: Drum, Talk and Dub

Understanding Television 2: Every Shot, Every Angle

Understanding Television 2: Are They All the Same?

Voices in the Dark: Part 1

Voices in the Dark: Part 2

Oral Communication: What Can I Say?

Oral Communication: Doing it for Real

Contemporary Drama: South - Part 1

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.

Understanding Newspapers: News Values, Whose Values?

Understanding Newspapers: Every Picture Tells a Story

Of Mice and Men: Part 1

Of Mice and Men: Part 2

Of Mice and Men: Part 3

Of Mice and Men: Part 4

Knowing about Language: Changing Voices

Knowing about Language: That's Funny

Knowing about Language: Who Says So?

Identities: Derek

Identities: Audition

Identities: Lindsey - Part 1

Identities: Lindsey - Part 2

Models of Writing: Reporting

Models of Writing: Argument and Persuasion

Models of Writing: Reviewing

Wider Reading: Ordinary People

Wider Reading: Good for a Laugh

Wider Reading: Fighting for a Cause

Poetry and the Making: Notes of Woe

Poetry and the Making: Images of London

Poetry and the Making: Voices of Thomas Hardy

Poetry and the Making: The Lady of Shalott

Language 2: 'Ow We Spake

Language 2: Words Fail Us!

Language 2: Language in a Store

Language 2: Falkland Tales

Television Plays: The Snow Queen - Part 1

Somewhere to Run: Part 1

Somewhere to Run: Part 2

One World Documentaries: Jonathan Dimbleby - One World

One World Documentaries: Brazil - Children of the Miracle

One World Documentaries: Bolivia - The Tin Mountain

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

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

Set Books: Joby

Set Books: The Pearl

INSET: Approaches to Literature

INSET: Knowledge about Language

The Glittering Haze: The Thirty-Second Culture

The Glittering Haze: Ads with an Attitude

The Glittering Haze: The Jeans Machine

The Glittering Haze: Burning the Rules

Class Readers: The Friends

Class Readers: Friedrich

Class Readers: Seeing a Beauty Queen Home

Class Readers: A Passage to the East End

Hobson's Choice: Part 1

Hobson's Choice: Part 2

Hobson's Choice: Part 3

Scottish Writers: Iain Banks

Scottish Writers: Liz Lochhead

Scottish Writers: William McIlvanney

Scottish Writers: A L Kennedy

The Channel 4 Anthology: A Matter of Life and Death

The Channel 4 Anthology: News Desk

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

The Channel 4 Anthology: Going Places

The Channel 4 Anthology: A Person is a Person

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

1984: Plenty - Eric Bogosian

1984: Peace - Zdena Tomin

1984: Love - The Watched

Mirad, a Boy from Bosnia: Part 1

Comprehension: The Writing of Spitting Image

Comprehension: To Reason Why

Comprehension: Mummy's Tomb

Comprehension: Tray, Pattern, Order and Cloze

Writing Non-Fiction: Essays

Writing Non-Fiction: Biography

Writing Non-Fiction: Letters

Writing Non-Fiction: Travel

Not as Good as the Book: Pride and Prejudice

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

Not as Good as the Book: Jane Eyre

Not as Good as the Book: Great Expectations

Five Authors: Sylvia Plath

Five Authors: Dylan Thomas

Five Authors: Charles Dickens

Five Authors: Maya Angelou

Modern American Poets: William Carlos Williams

Modern American Poets: Gary Snyder

Modern American Poets: Frank O'Hara

Modern American Poets: Allen Ginsberg

Powerful Texts: My Left Foot

Powerful Texts: Nineteen Fifty-Five

Science Fiction: H G Wells

The Gift of the Gab: Screenwriting

The Gift of the Gab: Playwriting

Dark Tales: Outsiders

Dark Tales: Cities at Night

Film Focus - The Films of Baz Luhrmann: Strictly Ballroom

Have Fun: Part 1

Have Fun: Part 2

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

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

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

Writers from Wales: Film and Television Drama

Writers from Wales: Prose

Writers from Wales: Poetry

Writers from Wales: Factual Writing

Classic Short Prose: The Tell Tale Heart

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

GCSE Literature: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

GCSE Literature: Brighton Rock

GCSE Literature: Animal Farm

GCSE Literature: A Chip of Glass Ruby

GCSE Literature: Five Stories of an Hour

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

Sex Equality: Through Our Eyes

Sex Equality: A Man's Place - Part 1

Irish Writers: Bernard MacLaverty

Irish Writers: Brian Moore

Irish Writers: Maeve Binchy

Irish Writers: Michael Longley

Behind the Scenes at the RSC: The Stage

Women Writers: Anne McCaffrey

Women Writers: Nadine Gordimer

Reel Truth?: The Hall of Mirrors

Reel Truth?: Rumours of War

Reel Truth?: Pictures of Power

Film Focus - Animation: An English Classic

Film Focus - Animation: Food Commercials

Gulliver's Travels: Part 1

Gulliver's Travels: Part 2

Gulliver's Travels: Part 3

Passwords: Simon Armitage

Passwords: Carol Ann Duffy

Passwords: Ted Hughes