TV Drama: School Play 3
Here’s the third extract from School Play, the BBC TV drama that was broadcast
in November 1979 and seems to have
vanished completely since.
In clip 2 the younger boys (all played by
adult actors) had played up to a monitor (prefect) and one made a cheeky
remark. When called upon to do so, no boy owns up.
In this scene, the monitors are in their
study and they believe that Tony Younger (played by
Richard
Morant) is the culprit and they call him to
the study and threaten him with a ‘bumming’
Incidentally, Morant was the actor who
played Flashman in the BBC TV adaptation of Tom Brown’s School Days and we saw
him being flogged here.
For more extracts from School Play,
click here.
Here’s a larger version of the same clip.
Picture and video credits: BBC TV
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more items involving Prefects, click here
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So I take it that "bumming" was a real term that was used? I'm not British but I've read & seen quite a bit & I've never heard the term before. Of course I've read and heard the word "bum" used plenty by British gents, as slang for the butt. "Bumming" is new to me though, & sounds very sexual, to be frank.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that 'bumming' was made up by the author: it's not a term I've come across anywhere else and I think by making up a set of slang (eg also 'grunts') the author was satirising the whole public school world, which features all kinds of slang at each different school.
ReplyDeleteWhere I come from in the UK, bumming means anal intercourse between two males.
ReplyDeleteIf you’re interested in schoolboy slang for beatings, caning etc, here’s a useful post
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