{"id":6025,"date":"2026-10-07T22:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1973-a-school-trip-to-france-scene-bbc-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:04:17","slug":"1973-a-school-trip-to-france-scene-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1973-a-school-trip-to-france-scene-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1973: A School Trip to France | Scene | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJfl-NXprRI?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;Most of them had never been abroad before, and the only French they knew were a few words they had picked up themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Programme for schools and colleges.<\/p>\n<p>As Britain prepares to enter the EEC, a group of teenagers from Somerset go on a ten-day trip to Houlgate in northwestern France, to find out about the French way of life. They are joined on their trip by two French teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>They attend a motoball match, visit a local farm, experience the market in Dives-sur-Mer, and have a meal at the home of a French family.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from Scene: The French Scene, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 February, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website &#8211; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJfl-NXprRI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most of them had never been abroad before, and the only French they knew were a few words they had picked up themselves.&#8221; Programme for schools and colleges. As Britain prepares to enter the EEC, a group of teenagers from Somerset go on a ten-day trip to Houlgate in northwestern France, to find out about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":6026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10957,11889,11890,11896,3227,11899,11898,1023,1019,15,1022,11902,11903,11897,11891,1021,1020,11895,11894,11892,1026,11893,4273,1025,11901,1027,11900,1024,1028],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1970s","tag-1970s-france","tag-1970s-holiday-to-france","tag-1970s-normandie","tag-1970s-nostalgia","tag-1970s-school-holiday","tag-1970s-travel","tag-archive","tag-archive-bbc","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-archive","tag-bbc-schools-1970s","tag-british-school-children-react-to-france","tag-british-teenagers-1970s","tag-british-teenagers-visit-france","tag-british-tv-nostalgia","tag-classic-tv","tag-dives-sur-mer","tag-english-school-trip-to-france","tag-houlgate","tag-legendary-television","tag-motoball","tag-normandy","tag-nostalgia","tag-old-bbc-schools-programme","tag-retro-tv","tag-scene-bbc","tag-the-bbc-archive","tag-vintage","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}