Patricia Farrington, who also created the characters. Music for the songs were composed by Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb and Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and most of the songs were sung by Derek Griffiths. Among the most popular were: "Bill the Brickie", which showed a bricklayer "building" words out of bricks, demonstrating the use of units of words or morphemes. "The Punctuation Song", which featured Mr. Big, representing capital letters, and Miss Full Stop Lollypop, representing as in her name, full stops. "I'm An Apostrophe", which demonstrated the various uses of the apostrophe. It went "I'm an apostrophe, to shorten words you say to me; I'm not a comma, I'm not a full stop, don't put me on the line – I go at the top!" A popular song was "Magic E", originally written in the mid-70s for Words and Pictures to demonstrate the silent E and the change in pronunciation of preceding vowels – for example: "cap" becomes "cape" with me, "tap" becomes "tape" with me. The song's simple lyrics about changing the words with "magic E" were memorable and simple to learn. Cult popularity A retro revival of the programme has made Look and Read the focus of some dedicated websites. Some of the older serials were repeated on the BBC children's channel CBBC as part of the Class TV strand until 2008, when the channel's obligation to show educational programmes was dropped. A fan account celebrating its success and nostalgic value was set up on Twitter in 2017. List of Look and Read stories Look and Read specials References External links Look and Read at Broadcast for Schools 1967 British television series debuts 2004 British television series endings BBC children's television shows British television shows for schools British television series with live action and animation Reading and literacy television series 1960s British children's television series 1970s British children's television series 1980s British children's television series 1990s British children's television series 2000s British children's television series British children's education television series English-language television shows