with Ronald Searle

The girls of St Trinian's smashed the Victorian image of sweet, well-behaved schoolchildren and injected a new bite into post-war English humour. Although they represent only five years out of 25 years' work, they have haunted the artist and the English public ever since.

Searle now lives in Paris, and his work has gone far beyond that of the St Trinian's slaughterhouse - although it began earlier in the jungle of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

The programme was filmed in Paris and in this country, with contributions from Malcolm Muggeridge and Russell Braddon but it is the drawings, and the humour, in relation to the man, on which the film concentrates.