TV Drama: Number 10 (Bloodline)
Number 10 was a 1983
British television series that aired on ITV and followed the life of a
different Prime Minister in each of its seven episodes.
‘Bloodline’ followed the
career of William Pitt the Younger
who was the youngest PM in history when he took office aged 24 in 1783.
In this clip we meet
William as a boy. He is considered to be of delicate health and so is not sent
to school but tutored at home. His father (played by Alfred Burke, who we met
as the headmaster in Home to Roost) decides the boy must experience the harshness of a flogging although
he has done nothing to deserve one. He instructs a reluctant Errington, who
(presumably) is a prefect at the elite public school Winchester, to cane
William.
He taps the cane across the
boy’s bottom.
The father is unimpressed,
“That would scarcely bruise a flea ... Harder!”
All very odd.
Although now largely
forgotten, the series is available on DVD.
Picture and video credits: Yorkshire Television.
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If it's in the stables shouldn't it be a riding crop?
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