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Horace Henry Samuel Quelch

Did Billy Bunter's scourge of Greyfriars School really become a secret agent? Stars Nigel Davenport and Andrew Sachs.

The Scourge of Billy Bunter and other pupils of Greyfriars School who may have done lasting damage to a generation of English schoolboys.

Whatever happened to Horace Henry Samuel Quelch?

Six-part series revealing the afterlife of some famous characters from children's fiction written by Adrian Mourby.

With Andrew Sachs as Quelch, Nigel Davenport as Major Vernon Smith, Gerald Campion as Bunter, Cyril Shaps as Sir Johnny Bull, Peter Woodthorpe as Harry Wharton MP, Jonathan Tafler as Alonzo Todd, Kerry Shale as Professor Edwin McHatte and Eva Haddon as Dr Anna Safanner.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.

30 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Sat 28 Feb 200908:30
  • Sat 28 Feb 200919:30
  • Sat 13 Feb 201009:30
  • Sat 13 Feb 201019:30
  • Sun 14 Feb 201005:30
  • Tue 5 Oct 201014:00
  • Thu 31 Jan 201909:30
  • Thu 31 Jan 201916:30
  • Fri 1 Feb 201904:30