Editing BBC Children's and Education (section)

=== 1930–1952 ===
The BBC has produced and broadcast television programmes for children since the 1930s. The first children-specific strand on BBC was ''[[For the Children]]'', first broadcast on what was then the single 'BBC Television Service' on Saturday 24 April 1937; it was only ten minutes long. It lasted for two years before being taken off air when the service closed due to [[the Second World War]] in September 1939.

Following the war, ''For the Children'' recommenced on Sunday 7 July 1946, with a 20-minute slot every Sunday afternoon and the addition of programmes for preschool children under the banner ''For The Very Young'', and over the years they became an established feature of the early afternoons on the BBC's main channel BBC1.