Roedean is Britain's most famous public school for girls whose primness and propriety are celebrated in verse and song. Sanitised from bright and breezy Brighton on a bleak outcrop of the South Downs, this famous school has prospered and survived by adapting to the changing social pressures of post-war years. This documentary film, first shown in the Forty Minutes series, conveys what it feels like to be a schoolgirl at Roedean. Against a background of reveille, assembly, lessons, lacrosse and leisure, some of the school's 400 girls describe the pressures of classroom and social life, of ' crushes ' and friendships, of conformity and success.
Executive producer ROGER MILLS
Directed by LUCY HARINGTON