A Radio Play by JAMES HILTON. and BARBARA BURNHAM
Based on the novel by JAMES HILTON
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Colley 1, 2 and 3 LAURI LANE and RODNEY MILLINGTON and The Scene is Brookfield School in the Fen Country
Production by BARBARA BURNHAM
This play is the saga of a schoolmaster-one Mr. Chipping, commonly known as ' Chips '. He comes to Brookfield School in 1870, the year of the Franco-Prussian war. a young man of no great ability, of no outstanding personality, a very ordinary young man. He survived the Boer War and the Great War. What happened to him, how he hung on, how his character grew and his appearance declined, until at last through fate he came to -be Head of Brookfield, identified with it, inseparable from it, is told in the play-a play in which the story matters least of all. ' Chips ' is what matters : an individualist and a character, and one that may well win radio fame.