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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

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Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill recalls a pupil with engineering talents.

Retired English master Dr Henry Pickerskill recalls a pupil with engineering talents. Stars Ian McDiarmid. From August 2009.

Ian McDiarmid stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill, retired English master of Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world - based on their school reports and their letters to him after they left.

Dr Pickerskill encourages Francis Kaws, whose great engineering talents are being wasted on clever and inventive school pranks, putting him in danger of being expelled. 

Pickerskill harnesses the boy's gifts, encouraging him to adapt an old tractor to run on Haunchurst College's defunct narrow-gauge railway line. 

Dr Henry Pickerskill ..... Ian McDiarmid 
Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ..... Philip Madoc
Francis Kaws ..... Louis Williams
The Colonel ..... Richard Johnson
Mike Poulson Jabby ..... Mike Feast
Stanislaw ..... Mike Sarne
Jack Rousseau ..... Tony Gardner

Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon.

Producers: Nick Romero
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