Award-winning comic Ria Lina shares her surprising experience of the year she concluded her local school wasn't making the grade and decided to school her children at home.

Well, not all of them, just the two she can stand.

No one was going to screw up her children better than she was. But suddenly, the responsibility for everything they were learning was upon her shoulders.
Ria's eclectic upbringing and education provides a unique perspective on what is and isn't important for her children to learn, but none of that means she's necessarily the best equipped to guide the youth of today into the future of tomorrow. She had to quickly dig into the issues of what we teach, and how - writing her own curriculum with comedic results.

Didactic comedy for anyone who ever went to school. Complete with songs.

Ria Lina has electrified audiences across the globe with her biting material. Half Filipino, half German, she was born in Britain but raised in the USA and Europe.

She's a trained actor, singer and dancer, with an extensive education (she studied the International Baccalaureate before going on to acquire a BSc in Experimental Pathology, an MSc in Forensic Science and a PhD in Viral Bio-informatics). And she can play the ukulele.

Producer: Lianne Coop

An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2016. Show less