The Cross-Country Cup

The Headmaster’s guile is put to the test when school funds for a sports trophy are misused.

Starring 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards.

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 Potter, that the school exists at all.

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Adapted for radio by David Climie.

Headmaster .... Jimmy Edwards
Aubrey Potter .... Roddy Maude-Roxby
Matron …. June Whitfield
Alfred Tennyson .... Frederick Treves
Phipps …. John Coxall
Lumley …. Roger Shepherd
Eamonn O'Reilly …. Roy Dotrice
Biggs …. Julian Somers
Rawlinson …. Philip Leavermore

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1962.