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Time to end History’s reputation as the Cinderella subject
HALF a century ago, when the BBC’s schedules included topics other than football, soaps, pornography and blasphemy, the Scottish Home Service (staff, two men and a dog – licence fee, 3s 6d) pioneered schools broadcasts on the wireless, with conspicuous success.
Its most popular programmes for primary schools were shoe-string dramatisations of Scottish history. These left the unfortunate man who was the forerunner of today’s special effects technicians, who simulated horses’ hoofbeats by the energetic use of walnut shells, suffering from repetitive strain injury; they also left a generation of young Scots in a state of enthralment with their country’s past. Then along came child-centred education, comprehensive schools and the barrow-boy broadcasting corporation – and the rest is history.
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