Radley College

Radley College is an English public school (i.e. private fee-paying school) sited near Abingdon in Oxfordshire. Former pupils include the comedian Peter Cook, the cricketers Andrew Strauss and Ted Dexter as well as the poet Andrew Motion.

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English - Public school - Abingdon - Oxfordshire - Comedian - Peter Cook - Andrew Strauss - Ted Dexter - Poet - Andrew Motion

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The Warden (headmaster) is Angus McPhail (appointed in 2000).

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During the 1979 summer term, the school's activities were filmed by the BBC for a series called "Public School", broadcast on BBC2 early in 1980. Capturing the end of a period when such schools felt genuinely afraid that the Labour government might push through legislation to close them down (there is a memorable scene of the headmaster expressing his delight in Margaret Thatcher's first election victory), the programme nevertheless now seems like a period piece, if only because it shows certain teaching methods and values that would never be allowed today.

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BBC - Labour - Margaret Thatcher

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