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Roots of England

on BBC Two England

The last of six films about English communities where the past is still strongly reflected in the present. Cambridge
One of Cambridge's smaller colleges, Sidney Sussex , each year invites young men (and these days young women too) to join four centuries of academic tradition. The students come and go, so do the academics, but one group stays - the college servants.
Brian Trueman meets the staff, past and present, those with decades of service behind them. as well as the younger generation who hate the term ' servant Times change as staff and fellows join in a darts match, but tradition stands firm when kitchen staff put their all into preparing the annual Foundation Feast.
Assistant producer SID WADDELL Producer JOHN c. MILLER BBC Manchester

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Sidney Sussex
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Brian Trueman
Producer:
Sid Waddell
Producer:
John C. Miller

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