Whack-O!

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School

Whack-O!: Series 2: Mildred's Little Bit

Mildred's Little Bit

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Whack-O!, Series 2, Mildred's Little Bit

Boys are caught sneaking into Chiselbury picture palace to watch adult films.

Boys are caught sneaking into the cinema for adult films. But what’s been happening in the woods? Stars Jimmy Edwards. From 1962.

Boys are caught sneaking into the cinema to watch adult films. 

But what’s been happening in the woods..?

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, MA 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
Mildred …. June Whitfield
Arnold Halliforth …. Edwin Apps as Arnold 
Mrs. Baker …. Patricia Hayes

With: 

John Coxall
Roger Shepherd
David Lott 
Amos the Owl 

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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