Schools programme with Victoria Wood

[steve242526]

Can anyone remember a tv series for school children starring Victoria Wood ? I think she played Wordwitch but I'm not sure. All I can remember is that it was made for the hard of hearing and she did quite a bit of sign language and there was a male presenter as well. Any info would be grateful !

[Heather74]

I think it was called Rainbows End

Slightly worried I may have jumped in to soon with this one. But member danny gave me the lead mentioning a character called Supersign here https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/t...ight=wordwitch

Does Supersign ring any bells Steve?

(My first thoughts were Look and Read but that was Wordy of course, and Words and Pictures also came to mind, but no sign of wordwitch in either

[Heather74]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood apperead along side Derek Griffiths in a Yorkshire Television schools programme for hearing-impaired children called insight which ran between 1980/83

[steve242526]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

That must be it ! Can't seem to find any info on it though. Many thanks once again !

[Danny]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

Loking at this and am not convinced that Supersign was played by Derek Griffiths - in my memory it was a tall, skinny white bloke in his thirties with mousey blond hair (and a bit of complexion trouble)

Maybe things are fading as I journey through life..................

[steve242526]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

I was thinking the same thing about it not being Derek Griffiths unless it was an earlier show or something.

[Danny]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

Returning years later, here is a short clip from insight, it shows ITV clock for a while but then, at about the one minute 34 seconds mark, it shows ( as a cartoon and then in the flesh) SuperSign...he is clearly not Derek Griffiths
https://youtu.be/z_z1yjSdU8Q

[Danny]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

I've been trying to get a still image of SuperSign of this clip but I ain't got the tech skills.
I thought it might be easier to use on reverse image apps to try and get the actors name

[CharlieCharles107]

Re: Schools programme with Victoria Wood

The first series of Insight was shown in 1980 and was presented by Derek Griffiths. And the second and final series of Insight was first shown in the Spring and Summer Terms of 1984, and was presented by Victoria Wood (as Wordwitch), and Peter Llewellyn-Jones (as Supersign).

Peter Llewellyn-Jones went on to present 'Our World' the spin-off to the long running ITV Schools series 'My World'.

[Danny]

Well it took 12 years but it was finally answered

[George 1978]

It was called Insight - a Yorkshire TV programme for ITV Schools. It was supposed to help youngsters hard of hearing to read and understand words, a bit like See Hear.

Victoria Wood and Derek Griffiths - the latter as a wizard. Griffiths, a veteran of Schools TV programme (Look and Read, etc,) but this was Wood's only Schools programme, although I believe she did some children's TV such as Jackanory.