Patricia Farrington
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Pat Farrington was a producer for the BBC
. She worked on Look and Read
(Sky Hunter, The Boy from Space and Dark Towers), Thinkabout Science (BAFTA nomination, 1990), You and Me and other series for BBC Schools Television between 1977 and 1996. Along with three or four other directors in Schools TV in the 1980s, she helped to give children a voice in programmes made for them. For example, children sang many of the songs, did pieces to camera and voice-overs and, in drama programmes, child characters were featured as protagonists. Apart from television programmes, Pat has also had a number of articles and poems published.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. She worked on Look and Read
Look and Read
Look and Read is a BBC television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills. The programme presents fictional stories in a serial format, the first of which was broadcast in 1967 and the most recent in 2004, making it the longest running nationally broadcast...
(Sky Hunter, The Boy from Space and Dark Towers), Thinkabout Science (BAFTA nomination, 1990), You and Me and other series for BBC Schools Television between 1977 and 1996. Along with three or four other directors in Schools TV in the 1980s, she helped to give children a voice in programmes made for them. For example, children sang many of the songs, did pieces to camera and voice-overs and, in drama programmes, child characters were featured as protagonists. Apart from television programmes, Pat has also had a number of articles and poems published.