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The Philpott File: File No. 1: A Pride of Officers

on BBC Two England

A series of documentary films with Trevor Philpott.

The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, has a reputation compounded of snobbery, glamour, and gallantry. It was founded just before Waterloo and for a century trained officers of style for an expanding Empire.
The Empire has gone, but Sandhurst is still there, and is still the most prestigious military school in the world. The British recruits now are of different stock from those of pre-war days. Every seventh Sandhurst cadet is from overseas, training not to improve his soul but to command men in some newly born national army.
Who are the young men in training at Sandhurst now, what are they being taught, and to what end?

(See page 33)
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Presenter:
Trevor Philpott
Director/Producer:
Peter Robinson

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