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August - Islington's Rebel School
Episode 4 of 5
As the movement for education reform gathers pace, one small school in Islington becomes a battleground between progressive teachers and the old guard. Read by Dean Rehman.
Writer John L Williams remembers the stifling summer that loosened societal norms and laid the foundations for modern-day Britain.
"A new generation of teachers had grown up in the ferment of the sixties and wanted to do away with the rote learning and corporal punishment of their own childhoods."
Read by Dean Rehman
Abridged by Rosemary Goring
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4.
On radio
Thu 18 Jun 202611:45
BBC Radio 4
Broadcasts
- Thu 18 Jun 202611:45BBC Radio 4
- Fri 19 Jun 202600:30BBC Radio 4
