Boys, Badges and Baden Powel ( available for one week only)

[Pint 23]

As poart of the UK Scouting centenary celebrations, the BBC are showing some special programmes on Radio and TV, the first one of these was a Radio programme Broadcast earlier today called 'Boys Badges, and Baden Powel' mostly about Scoutings early days, with information on the Parents leter sent out for the first camp on Brownsea Island, as well as old clips of interviews with some of the origanal boys who went on the first experimental camp.

 

you can use the BBc radio player the listen to this show again, although there usualy only available for a week.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/boysbadgespowell/pip/izyk1/

 

Part2 will be broadcast Next week, and there is also a Programme broadcast on primetime BBC2 between 8pm-9pm on the 2nd of January called "When we were Scouts"

 

The programme is a one hour look back on the last 100 years of Scouting.

It involves celebrities looking back at their Scouting when they were young. More importantly, it also involves a camp at Gilwell Park, the home of Scouting, where( Presenter/Comedian) Neil Morrissey 'stumbles' across a Troop at camp and joins in.

 

He arrives with his 'Scouting for Boys' under his arm and realises that Scouting today is the adventure every Young Person should get involved with and that the many 'myths' of Scouting are not necessarily correct!

 

The troop that Neil camp's with is the 3rd Hastings (Holy Redeemer) Scout Troop, from Hastings, Rye & District, East Sussex - an excellent example of what Scouting is all about today!

(above text taken from www.kentscouts.org.uk )