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Taking the Rap

School trouble is brewing over a pupil playing truant and a strict disciplinarian on the staff. With Dilys Laye. From May 1992.

Trouble is brewing at the school over a pupil playing truant and a strict disciplinarian on the staff.

Created and written by Jim Eldridge.

Ten series of this comedy about a junior school ran between 1985 and 1998. ‘King Street Junior Revisited’ ran from 2002 to 2005.

Mr Beeston …. James Grout
Mr Holliday …. Tom Watson
Mrs Stone …. Margaret John
Mr Long …. Paul Copley
Mrs Rudd …. Vivienne Martin
Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway
Mrs Patterson …. Deirdre Costello
Mrs Jackson …. Dilys Laye
Mrs Foster …. Joanna Wake
Mr Reynolds …. Mark Straker
Marion Foster …. Elaine Tan
Natasha …. Rebecca Cullum
Parvaz …. Tony Charles
Errol …. Dean Magri

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1992.

30 minutes

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