By the 1930s, secondary schools were included in the target audience and broadcasts were added covering foreign-language learning.

Any regional variations were consolidated into a single home service for children with a five-minute news broadcast that was designed to explain the confusing circumstances.

The School Broadcasting Council for the United Kingdom had been set up in 1947, replacing the CCSB, and included Scotland and Wales.

The BBC produced around 80 series per year for School Radio, which amounted to around 16 hours per week.

Consequently, the daytime schools transmissions had to move so they were transferred to Radio 3, airing between 14.00 and 15.00, much to the chagrin of many of that station's listeners.

TV broadcasting for schools began on 13 May 1957 (this had been hoped to begin in the late 1940s, but financial constraints prevented this).

In the same year, from 3 to 5 July, a three-day festival was held at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham.

Content is divided into twelve subjects: The English section includes a selection of abridgements of classic stories told by celebrity voices, including The Wind in the Willows, read by Bernard Cribbins, and The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, read by Anne-Marie Duff, Sir Derek Jacobi, David Tennant and Penelope Wilton, amongst others.

Pre-recorded programmes were previously available on CD or DVD from BBC Schools' Broadcast Recordings, but these were eventually phased out in favour of online podcast versions.