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Two French-language mystery serials from the 1960s, one made by the BBC and the other by ITV. The pages are written entirely in English and translations are given for the slightest bit of French!

• La Chasse au Trésor
• Le Mystère de Valbec

This website is all about schools broadcasting - programmes on the TV and radio to be used in schools. It is only about programmes in Britain at the moment. That is still a massive area with over 80 years of history, and it has to start somewhere.

So this website starts with covering the very long-running and popular BBC series Look and Read. It is based on my old website about the same programme, www.lookandread.myby.co.uk, which went for years and years but got shut down in 2007. But this new website has loads of new content that the old site never had. If you want to see what, just start reading about the first Look and Read story, Bob and Carol Look for Treasure and keep going.

There is also lots of information about the Merry Go Round stories from the 1960s which led to the creation of Look and Read.

(A tip about how this website works - if you click on a picture you will just get a bigger version of that picture. To find out about it, you have to click on the text links near to a picture, like the picture above is about the story Tom, Pat and Friday.)

Before Look and Read there was another schools TV series showing exciting dramatised stories to children to encourage them to learn. This series was called Television Club and there is full coverage of the early years of that programme on this site now. I will fill in details about the later years as soon as I can. Before Television Club there was Friday Magazine and before that there was the radio series The Jacksons - both are also covered in depth on this site.

But the BBC weren't the only ones making schools programmes, ITV have been very productive too. And starting at the very beginning, this site has full coverage of the first ever ITV schools programme in London, Looking and Seeing (after which this site is named!), as well as the first ever ITV schools programme in the North of England, Discovery. The reason for the different programmes in different parts of the country is explained on the Discovery page.

Finally, for now, I have started a section about one of the highest-profile BBC schools series, Scene, which has presented some absolutely remarkable plays and documentaries over nearly 40 years. For now all the Scene page really has is a list of all the episodes (over 300 of them!) but in time I hope to cover the individual programmes in detail.

For a list of all the main series currently covered on this site, visit the list of all series link. And please explore because there are lots more pages about individual stories and units of programmes within each series as well.

This website is only just beginning, there are loads and loads more schools programmes I want to cover. If you are able to help with any material - books, articles, pictures, programmes, memories or just information - I would be very pleased to hear from you, please get in touch.

- Ben Clarke (this is my website!)