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Marry or Bust

When faced with a financial shortfall, Professor Jimmy Edwards' plans are scuppered unless he can find a wife. From June 1961.

When faced with a financial shortfall, Professor Jimmy Edwards' plans are scuppered unless he can find a wife...

Starting life on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk".

Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, MA never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra.

It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at all.

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Adapted by David Climie.

June Whitfield ...... Matron
Roddy Maude-Roxby ...... Mr Potter
Joan Sanderson ...... The Marchioness
Roy Dotrice ...... Dr Sopwith
Frederick Treves ...... Soames
Roger Shepherd ...... Lumley
David Lott ...... Taplow

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Light Programme in June 1961.

30 minutes

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Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:30

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