The Cricket Pavilion Fire
Cricket ashes of a different kind when the new school pavilion burns down. Stars Professor Jimmy Edwards. From September 1961.
Cricket ashes of a different kind when the new school pavilion burns down.
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
Brigadier Lumley …. Austin Trevor
Aubrey Potter …. Roddy Maude-Roxby
Alfred Tennyson …. Frederick Treves
Lumley …. Roger Shepherd
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Light Programme in September 1961.
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