Whack-O!

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School

Whack-O!: Series 2: Pools Win

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Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Whack-O!, Series 2, Pools Win

How can Jim have won the jackpot if he doesn’t play the football pools?

How can Jim have won the jackpot if he doesn’t play the football pools? Stars Professor Jimmy Edwards. From April 1962.

How can Headmaster Jim have won the jackpot - if he doesn’t play the football pools?

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. 

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Adapted for radio by David Climie. 

Headmaster    ......    Jimmy Edwards
Aubrey Potter    ......    Roddy Maude-Roxby  
Alfred Tennyson    ......    Frederick Treves
Eamonn O'Reilly    ......    Wallas Eaton
Arnold Halliforth    ......    Edwin Apps
Rev Barnwell Munro    ......    John Graham
Yvette    ......    Prunella Scales

With: 

Sheila Grant
Diana Olsson

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 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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