"Friends and Heroes"

"Friends and Heroes" is an action-and-adventure animation story which introduces stories from the Old and New Testaments to ages 6-10.

You can discover more about Friends and Heroes on the web site at www.friendsandheroes.com.

The first Series of 13 episodes is to be broadcast on the CBBC channel on weekdays 12 - 23 March!  The output is largely targeted at schools - Stapleford Centre are working to ensure that at the time of broadcast there will be free lesson plans and pupil worksheets so that teachers will be able to use these programmes as part of the national syllabi for all the countries in the British Isles.

The programmes are not branded as "religious", so that they are accessible to the widest possible audience - whatever their faith.  If broadcast is successful, the BBC might be prepared to run the show on more popular Terrestrial TV Channels - and might also consider showing Series Two and Series Three when they are completed in 2008 and 2009.