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A Very English Education

BBC Two (not Northern Ireland) Today 9pm - 10pm
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This poignant film has shades of the famous Seven Up! series in the way it shows the arc of lives and the workings of character across decades. In 1979, BBC2 made a series called Public School, a ground-breaking portrait of life at Radley College. So what became of the boys featured? Director Hannah Berryman catches up with six of them and discovers how they feel now about their school days and what has become of them since. Except, brilliantly, she keeps us waiting for that last bit, so we don’t know until the end what became of the scholar and sportsman who cracked under the pressure, or the school stud. As a study in class, manners and hindsight, it’s hard to beat.


In 1979, the BBC made Public School, a documentary series about life at Radley College. In this follow-up, director Hannah Berryman catches up with some of the former pupils who featured in the programme to find out how their lives panned out after they left, discovering whether they turned out to be as successful as their parents had hoped and what kind of men they became.
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