Fictional English Junior school teachers drama series
King Street Junior
Genre
Radio comedy
Running time
30 minutes
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Language(s)
English
Home station
BBC Radio 4
Starring
Peter Davison (series 1—2) Karl Howman (series 3—10) James Grout
Created by
Jim Eldridge
Written by
Jim Eldridge (66 episodes) Paul Copley (3 episodes) Richard Stoneman (3 eps) Martin Davies (2 episodes) Andy Rashleigh {1 episode} Ivan Shakespeare (1 ep)
Produced by
John Fawcett Wilson
Original release
25 March 1985 (1985-03-25) – 2 November 1998 (1998-11-02)
No. of series
10
No. of episodes
76
Website
King Street Junior at BBC Radio 4 Extra
King Street Junior is a radio comedy which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between March 1985 and November 1998.[1] The show ran for ten series and the cast included Peter Davison,[2] James Grout and Karl Howman. The series is written by Jim Eldridge.
Research for the show was done at Newtown Road School in Carlisle.[3]
A continuation series aired in 2002 and was named King Street Junior Revisited.
Episodes closed with a children's choir singing "See the Farmer Sow the Seed," a hymn written by Baptist minister Frederick Arthur Jackson (1867–1942).
^Roy Fisher; Ann Harris; Christine Jarvis (2008). Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers And Learners. Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 9780415332415.
^Slide, Anthony (1996). Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities. Greenwood. p. 57. ISBN 9780313295508.
^Cite error: The named reference cumberland was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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