An elite band of secretaries in No. 10 Downing Street, The Garden Room Girls are so called because they occupy the room looking out onto the Prime Minister's garden. In their first-ever interviews, listeners hear from some of the "girls" who have worked at the very centre of Government over the last 50 years who reveal their untold stories of life at Number 10 and how it operates.
Jon Scieszka, the First National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, brings his lovable Trucktown characters to READING STREET. Get Set, Roll! Readers allow children to practice their phonics skill. They enchant and engage children while developing phonological awareness.
A Child's Garden of Verses I Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?
After the death of a close friend, Elly, Sable, Barbara Ann, and Beth gather at her house for a weekend to sort through her personal papers, as well as to come to terms with what their own lives have become.
Word on the Street is an exciting new English Language teaching programme co-produced by the BBC and the British Council. Word on the Street looks at how English works in everyday life and presents lively aspects of young British culture. Each half hour episode is filmed in a different place in the UK and features drama, interviews and reports to help you improve your English language skills.
