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By Andrew McGibbon. English master Dr Henry Pickerskill looks back on his favourite pupils

By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the now-retired English master of Haunchurst School for boys, looks back on his favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world

The Pickerskill Reports: Series 2

The Pickerskill Reports: Series 2: Episode 4: Richard and Gregory Severin

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Episode 4

Episode 4: Richard and Gregory Severin

Richard and Gregory Severin

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In the late 1940s, the master dupes two brothers entranced by Lenin, Marx and Trotsky.

In the late 1940s, the master dupes two brothers entranced by Lenin, Marx and Trotsky. Stars Ian McDiarmid. From August 2011.

Written by Andrew McGibbon.

It is the late forties and Gregory and Richard Severin, soon to head off to university, become entranced by the in-vogue teachings of Lenin, Marx, Engels and Trotsky and the Soviet experiment. 

In a bid to save himself from being bored to death by their endless Spartist dogma, Pickerskill uses a detention with them to say that he is secretly one of them - a communist, and that they must remain silent until he gives them the signal to join him in the vanguard of the great British workers proletarian rebellion. Unfortunately, his false pledge of allegiance is overheard by the cook of Castlereagh House who happens to be the daughter of a murdered White Russian anti-communist.

Cast:
Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid 
Richard Severin ........Tom Kane 
Gregory Severin ...... James Rowland 
A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne 
Mrs Stroove ...... Mia Soteriou 
Cartwright/Dawson .......Toby Longworth 
The Colonel/Pyotr Stroove ...... Andrew McGibbon


Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon
Directed by Andrew McGibbon
A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4.

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Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill looks back on his most memorable pupils

Darkly comic drama written by Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, English master of Haunchurst School, looks back on his most memorable pupils

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