Whack-O!

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Jimmy Edwards stars as the irascible headmaster of Chiselbury School

Whack-O!: Series 2: The Old Lag

The Old Lag

Series 2

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

Will the Headmaster be able to make a good impression on their new landlord?

The boys playing up! Will the Headmaster manage to make a good impression on their new landlord? Stars Jimmy Edwards. From 1962.

With the boys playing up will the Headmaster be able to make a good impression on their new landlord?

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
Mr Morgan …. Julian Somers 
Lady Westbury .... June Whitfield
Samuel Tozer .... Roy Dotrice
John Coxall .... Phipps
Lumley .... Roger Shepherd

With: 

David Lott
Kenneth Gouge
Philip Leavermore 

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 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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