ITV | Let's Read With Basil Brush | 1982 

First broadcast on Thursday 4 November 1982.

Absolutely hilarious - I had forgotten how entertaining these were.

This was from the days when the "whole language" method of teaching reading was the fashion. Compare it with, say, the BBC's Look and Read (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z9Fc-JL_v80.html) which used a synthetic phonics-based approach. I can't help thinking that reading standards would be higher today if Basil had brushed up on his phonics.

Someone please find the rest of these and upload them! I used to love this show! 🤣

I think there were 28 episodes in all. At the start of one episode, Basil sang an extra verse of the song!

I wonder how many episodes of Let's Read with Basil Brush they actually produced for transmission? i wish i could speak out to few of the surviving crew if they're useful enough to know or the archiving team at ITV.

You know who could have benefitted from a show like this? Keith Harris and Orville. Poor bloke.

@Neil Miles Listen up because it's very important, Benriggers has disappeared and we cannot risk having you disappeared, as of today RU-vid is no longer a safe place to upload content like what you do, so I must give you a very simple instruction, you must move all of your content, to ia, internet-archive, do it now before it's too late.

so funny, basil on great form