CBeebies Winter/Spring 2009
Programmes A-F
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Alphablox
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Aimed at four-to-six-year-olds, this brand new commission, both
online and on the CBeebies channel, explores what happens when
letters come to life.
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The game features innovative wordplay, short
comedy clips and a world that children can create by joining letters
together.
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One day, a large cube falls from the sky and breaks into 26 blocks,
each with its own letter and distinct personality.
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The Alphablox have
nothing, but they can make anything they can spell and, with the
children's help, start creating their own world.
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This series of 20 short-form animations combined with a playful
online environment enables children to discover the joy and power
of letters and words.
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Alphablox offers a combination of great
stories, laughter and the development of key literacy skills through
collaborative game play between children and their carers.
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A Magic Lantern production for CBeebies.
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Front Desk
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bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s best loved website, CBeebies is the number one online
destination for pre-school children and their parents.
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Regularly
receiving more than one million unique users per week, the website lets the
´óÏó´«Ã½'s youngest users interact with all their favourite characters.
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Offering a wide range of online and offline activities, all focused on
key skills development for the under-sevens, the audience enjoys a
fun and playful experience through immersive applications, including
The Green Balloon Club, In The Night Garden and Big And Small.
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Along with learning goals, the CBeebies Grown-Ups site offers
advice and ideas for activities that parents and carers can do with
their children.
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The learning ethos doesn't come at the expense of
innovation, children will experience the delight and excitement of
sending a birthday card, testing their knowledge and skills in the
Kerwhizz quiz and race game, or exploring their creativity with
the Magic Paintbox.
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Front Desk
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CBeebies Radio on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 7
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CBeebies Radio is made especially for the under-six-year-old audience and is broadcast on
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 7.
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Highlights of the coming season include:
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The Mudds – a new series about a funny family who get into all kinds of scrapes and
learn about basic science themes along the way. Mark Benton plays Pyla the dog and Bernard
Cribbins is Gramps.
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Sugar Plum Story Time captures young children's thoughts in response to a
selection of classical music. These become a musical story told by the children with the help
of award-winning children's editor Elliott Davis. Children are the stars of the show and their
voices alone will be heard in the programmes.
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Madame Maestro (played by Jane Horrocks) is a musical mastermind. Every day she
opens up her music box and inside is a new instrument. Each instrument then introduces its
favourite musical story.
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CBeebies Radio also goes on a special roadshow and records a programme from a school in
Manchester.
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Presenters Jez and Ruth join a class of children and together they create their
own stories and become radio stars.
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Complementing the television series, CBeebies Radio also serves up specially
commissioned poems in Poetry Pie.
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Sportacus and the Lazy Town gang feature in some
new adventures, written specially for radio, and Floella Benjamin brings stories to life with
the help of her Story Sack.
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CBeebies Radio is also available via online streaming and through selected podcasts.
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Front Desk
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Dirtgirlworld
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Dirtgirl is a fearless, fun-loving, gumboot-wearing girl who grows huge tomatoes,
knows the names of clouds and drives a big, orange tractor.
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Inspiring four-to-six-year-olds, Dirtgirlworld is an innovative series which mixes live
action, animation and photo-collage to make its larger-than-life characters come alive.
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This music-filled series explores nature and invites the young audience into a world
where the real and unreal can be friends together.
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Helping in Dirtgirl's backyard are her best friend, Scrapboy, a cowpunk who's a whiz with junk; Grubby, with her worm's eye view; Ken the Weevil, a super stunt star with
an inferiority complex; Roger the Rooster and The Chicks; Hayman the monosyllabic
scarecrow; and The Green Thumbs – real kids in real gardens having unreal fun.
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Dirtgirlworld is full of bizarre insects, underground tunnels and performing stunt
bugs.
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Funky pop songs, guitars with attitude, beats, grooves and loops are all blended
with a tractor to make up the infectiously cool music in Dirtgirlworld.
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A mememe/decode entertainment production.
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