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The Book Prizes

Professor Jimmy Edwards has to act quickly to save the school prize-giving day. With Joan Sanderson. From August 1961.

The Headmaster has to act quickly to save the school prize-giving day.

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.

The Headmaster …. Jimmy Edwards
Matron …. June Whitfield
Aubrey Potter …. Roddy Maude-Roxby
Alfred Tennyson …. Frederick Treves
Lady Uppingham …. Joan Sanderson
Brigadier Lumley …. Austin Trevor
Lumley …. Roger Shepherd

With:

David Lott
Graham Aza

Producer: Edward Taylor

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

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 14 May 2023 04:30

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