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Cracking Up: Series 1: Revision Express

Revision Express

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Spencer's flat is full of sewage and son Dylan struggles with revision.

Spencer's flat is full of sewage and has quite the solution when son Dylan struggles with revision. Stars Jack Burke. From 2017.

Dylan has exams looming and, like many teenage boys, is finding the whole work/life balance tricky to negotiate. Spencer has problems of his own as his flat has been pumped full of raw sewage and he decides to kill two birds with one van. He parks a mobile home on the family drive emblazoned with a sign that reads Revision Express. 

He proposes to aid Dylan's revision with a technique known as appetitive stimulus. Despite Tilly's observation that "I think he's already started...I'm sure that's why he spends so long in the bathroom", it turns out to be a system of rewards that Spencer covertly places in Dylan's wardrobe. 

So basically - bribery. 

Things start badly as Dylan's friend Jamal takes a picture of Spencer emerging proudly from the Revision Express in a peaked cap and uniform and uploads it to Instagram where it immediately goes viral and sprouts memes of Spencer as (among other things) a zookeeper and Hitler. 


A Big Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2017.

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