Radley College
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Radley College is an English public school (i.e. private fee-paying school) sited near the village of Radley in Oxfordshire. Former pupils include the comedian Peter Cook, the cricketers Andrew Strauss and Ted Dexter as well as the poet Andrew Motion.
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. The head of english, Mark Moore leaves in July to become Head of College at Clifton College in Bristol, UK.
Literature
- Christopher Hibbert, No Ordinary Place: Radley College and the Public School System 1847-1997, 1997, London: John Murray General Publishing Division, ISBN 0719551765.
External Links
- Official web site (http://www.radley.org.uk)
- Independent School Inspection Report on Radley College (http://www.isinspect.org.uk/reports/2002/0886_02_r.htm)