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Afternoon Theatre: The Facts of Life - or What Greenbaum Did at School

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Written and narrated by David Wade
Continuing David Wade's semi-autobiographical story of his school days during the Second World War. The first, "Summer of 39", dealt with a mini-Hitler at a prep school. This play is set in the same school two-and-a-half years later and now evacuated. Greenbaum falls foul of authority for some ill-defined sexual offence. But his draconian official punishment is as nothing to what his fellows, moved by self-righteousness and racial prejudice, inflict on him.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Writer/Narrator:
David Wade
Director:
Ian Cotterell
Headmaster:
Michael Spice
Mr Potter:
Sion Probert
Mr Harvey:
Leonard Fenton
Wade:
R Lindsay
Greenbaum:
J S Knowles
Barrington e:
A Proud
Johnson:
D C Bradshawe
Hocken:
1 Lidstone
Venables:
J England
Manvel:
P R Adams
Anstey:
S Sheridan
Music master:
Neil Rhoden
Source: Radio Times

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