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The Guinea Pigs

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They had not been to prep school and their accents proved it. Their fathers were miners, lorry drivers or clerks. Their homes were rural cottages or urban semis and they were pupils at some of Britain's most renowned and expensive public schools.
Forty years after the Fleming
Report initiated the educational and social experiment which placed them there,
Sonia Beesley talks to some of the participants in 'the good-natured scheme' which changed their lives.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

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Talks:
Sonia Beesley
Producer:
Sally Thompson
Source: Radio Times

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