TV Drama: Children

 

Children is a 1976 BBC Television drama about violence (social and domestic) and its effects on a boy, told in a series of extended flashbacks, revealing the incidents in his childhood and adult life that have subverted his personality.

Robert Tucker, a pupil at a Catholic boys’ school in Liverpool, is bullied and taunted by older boys just as, between prayers and lessons, all the boys are bullied, taunted and beaten by their teachers.

It is part of a trilogy of dramas written by Terence Davies.

In this clip a bigger boy bullies Robert and they fight, a teacher sees them and both boys are caned.

Children is available on DVD as part of the Terence Davies Trilogy.

Picture and video credits: BBC.

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