nuffink to this acting lark

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Spellbound by the magic box in the corner of the front room flickering black and white images from the 14" screen programme content was not a contentious issue during the burgeoning medium of TV in the '50's. We were just enthralled by the very phenomenon. Perhaps that's why we as both kids and the adults watched Tom Brown School Days, Wacko and Billy Bunter unquestioningly. The fact that these and other school based programmes were situated almost exclusively in Public schools didn't seem to matter. Apart from the strange plummy accents the language and expressions such as rotter, beastly, horrid and dare I say it, welshing. were also alien. The plethora of public schools appearing in our working class terraced houses despite representing only about 5% of the educational system spoke volumes of the type of people running the BBC. The chaps at Beeb seem to live in a different world to the rest of us.

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