Favourite TV Drama Clips: 5
The secondary school in David
Leland’s 1983 TV drama Birth
of a Nation is a “spanking school” –
so says the deputy headmaster Vic Griffiths (played by Robert
Stephens). It’s a punishment dished out for
almost any violation of classroom discipline.
It makes Number 5 in my personal Top 20 favourite school CP scenes from TV drama.
Here’s what happens when a senior boy at
secondary school refuses to play by the rules and bend over to be whacked with
a plimsoll on the backside.
It is not a pretty sight.
There are two further clips. The first
involving a bullying gym teacher is here.
The second, where Griffiths gently cajoles a most reluctant victim into
accepting a whack rather than some other time-consuming punishment is here.
Picture and video credits: Network / Central Independent Television / Granada Ventures
As an aside, when the series aired on television the anti-caning group STOPP urged the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to watch it.
As
published in the Daily Post, Liverpool, 17 June 1983
For
more from Birth of a Nation, click here
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I agree it is rather unseemly and not a good advert for the use of cp. I didn't experience or hear of any such occurrence during my schooldays but I suppose it may have happened on occasion.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of the unseemly drama there are two wonderful looking bottoms here.
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