Potter Takes Over

Sacked over a poetry prize gaff, Professor Jimmy Edwards works hard to get his job back at Chiselbury School.

Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk".

Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, MA never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra.

It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at all.

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Adapted by David Climie.

Matron............. June Whitfield
Mr Potter......... Roddy Maude-Roxby
Lumley...............Roger Shepherd
Taplow...............David Lott

With Graham Aza and John Mitchell.

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1961.