Behind the News

Behind the News


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  • Last Air Date: 2007-10-23
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 29
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 20 min.
  • Network: ABC TV
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Summary

Behind the News is a long-running news program broadcast on Australia's ABC1 made in Adelaide and aimed at school-aged children. BtN is aimed at upper primary and lower secondary students with the goal of helping them understand current issues and events in their world. Behind the News explores major news events using the language, music and popular culture of young people. The program explains the concepts that underpin the issues and events, while also providing background information that puts current affairs into context. Behind the News also covers kids' issues often overlooked by mainstream news, and makes use of online resources including streaming video of BtN stories, study materials for teachers and additional information and activities for students. BtN explains news items in a fun, simplistic way that is easy to understand. In 2004 Behind the News was temporarily axed due to Government budget cuts but returned to air in 2005. While BtN was the first and original program of this nature, a similar program on Network Ten, ttn, debuted in the year BtN did not air. ttn itself was axed at the end of 2008. Some schools let students watch BtN on a regular basis in hope that it will give them an insight into politics, current affairs, sport and various other topics.

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Behind the News Seasons

Season 38

First Air Date: 2007-02-20
29 Episodes

Behind the News Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1969Episode 16/6/196925 min
Season 2016Episode 1324/5/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 1431/5/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 157/6/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 1614/6/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 17Civics Series: What Is Democracy?5 min
Season 2016Episode 1828/6/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 19Civics Series: The History Of Voting5 min
Season 2016Episode 20Civics Series: The Three Levels Of Government5 min
Season 2016Episode 21Civics Series: What Is An Electorate?5 min
Season 2016Episode 2226/07/201625 min
Season 2016Episode 2302/08/201625 min
Season 2016Episode 249/8/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 2516/8/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 2623/8/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 2730/8/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 286/9/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 2913/9/1625 min
Season 2016Episode 3020/9/1625 min
Season 2017Episode 1202/05/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1309/05/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1416/05/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1523/05/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1630/05/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1706/06/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1813/06/201725 min
Season 2017Episode 1920/06/201725 min
Season 2018Episode 1How to Spot Bias in the Media25 min
Season 2018Episode 2Dishonesty, Accuracy & Ethics in the Media25 min
Season 2018Episode 3How To Spot Fake News25 min
Season 2018Episode 4Which News Sources Can Be Trusted?25 min
Season 2018Episode 5What Makes News, News?25 min
Season 2020Episode 6Episode 625 min
Season 2020Episode 7Episode 725 min
Season 2020Episode 8Episode 825 min
Season 2020Episode 9Episode 925 min
Season 2024Episode 1Episode 125 min
Season 2024Episode 2Episode 225 min
Season 2024Episode 3Episode 325 min
Season 2024Episode 4Episode 425 min
Season 2024Episode 5Episode 525 min
Season 2024Episode 6Episode 625 min
Season 2024Episode 7Episode 725 min
Season 2024Episode 8Episode 825 min
Season 2024Episode 9Episode 925 min
Season 2024Episode 10Episode 1025 min
Season 2024Episode 11Episode 1125 min
Season 2024Episode 12Episode 1225 min
Season 2024Episode 13Episode 1325 min
Season 2024Episode 14Episode 1425 min
Season 2024Episode 15Episode 1525 min
Season 2024Episode 16Episode 1625 min
Season 2024Episode 17Episode 1725 min
Season 2024Episode 18Episode 1825 min
Season 2024Episode 19Episode 1925 min
Season 2024Episode 20Episode 2025 min
Season 2024Episode 21Episode 2125 min
Season 2024Episode 22Episode 2225 min
Season 2024Episode 23Episode 2325 min
Season 2024Episode 24Episode 2425 min

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