Home and Away
I didn’t choose that title; the Beeb producer doing the Schools Radio show that Barney has been doing chose it - although she chose it for the title of the programme, I just copied it here 
We got the CD with the finished show on it yesterday, and listened last night. It’s a very fair representation, which is what I’d expected (after meeting her, I’d have been really surprised if she’d done a hatchet-job). The programme involved two children who are home-educated (Barney and his friend S, who’s just recently come out of school) and two children who board at school (a 12yo and an 8yo). Barney came across as slightly awkward - he was being very careful about speaking clearly and so ended up saying everything very slowly - and mentioned that he missed “being able to go to people’s houses after school” - something I think he only ever did about twice, not counting the friends whose houses he still visits 
But he also talked about being able to do lots of things he “couldn’t do if I was at school”, and said he preferred being home-educated to going to school. Overall the programme was very good, and I think it will go down well in classrooms when it’s broadcast (which is to be in November). At the beginning of it, the producer had asked some school-children to say what they thought it would be like to never go to school, and the main concern for most of them was missing out on playing football! I wonder if they ever sit down and add up just how much football-playing time they get on an average school day…and how much more time for football they’d have if they weren’t lining up for assembly and the lunch-hall 
Anyway, Barney has had fun making the programme, and because we were away when the editing was being done, he’s still to go into the Beeb and see how editing for radio all happens, and he’s looking forward to that too.
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