ABSTRACT
In January 1982 the British Broadcasting Corporation's Continuing Education Department launched one of the most complex projects in the history of educational broadcasting. The BBC Computer Literacy Project developed as a result of an increasing awareness over a number of years of the growing importance of information technology' in the lives of ordinary people in industry, commerce, education and in the home. The role of the Continuing Education Department is to respond to and anticipate the needs and interests of learning adults in a wide range of subject areas - from cooking to current affairs, from gardening to engineering. Our series are not labelled 'educational' but their aims are to stimulate activity and promote understanding, so they are usually supported in a variety of ways - by books, courses and so on, which help to take viewers further into a subject.
