Whack-O!

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School

Whack-O!: Series 2: The Recording

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Series 2

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

Jim needs to raise £500 for a charitable cause. With special guest, Vera Lynn.

The headmaster needs to raise £500 for a charitable cause. Stars Professor Jimmy Edwards and special guest Vera Lynn. From 1962.

Headmaster Jim needs to raise £500 for a charitable cause. 

Starring 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards. 

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 and pupils played by Roddy Maude-Roxby, Frederick Treves, Roger Shepherd, John Coxall, Philip Leavermore, David Lott, Kenneth Goodge and John Graham.     

Special guest stars: Vera Lynn and Harry Lewis as themselves. 

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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