BBC Schools Radio Broadcast
Watch the full clip of Lessons from the Air. This clip is from the British Council Film Collection, you can discover more about the clip here.
The British Council Film Collection is an archive of 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. Preserved by the BFI National Film Archive and digitised by means of a generous charitable donation, the films are now free to view, to download and to play with for the first time.
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