Whack-O!

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School

Whack-O!: Series 2: The Russian Visitor

The Russian Visitor

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Whack-O!, Series 2, The Russian Visitor

The Headmaster is intent on impressing a dignitary from Moscow.

4 Extra Debut. Back from Moscow, headmaster ‘Professor’ Jimmy Edwards sets out to impress a Russian dignitary. With June Whitfield. From 1962.

Back from Moscow for the new school term, headmaster ‘Professor’ Jimmy Edwards sets out to impress a Russian dignitary.

Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk". 

Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, M.A. never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra. It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Potter, that the school exists at all. 

Staff played by June Whitfield, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Frederick Treves and Edwin Apps 

Schoolboys and other horrors: Roger Shepherd , John Coxall, Graham Aza, David Lott, Stuart Anderson and Philip Leavermore. 

Special Guest: Roy Dotrice as Bulenkov. 

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and adapted for radio by David Climie. 

Producer: Edward Taylor 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1962.

Whack-O!: Series 2

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School.

Professor Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School.

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