ABSTRACT
I commend to all weary trudgers in the educational byways the tape of the first People Like Us series on BBC Radio 4, written by John Morton.
The first programme, featuring Chris Langham as the hapless reporter Roy Mallard, is ‘The Headmaster’: a straight-faced mockdocumentary in which our hero spends a day in a comprehensive school, following the dim head Mr Peacock and his disaffected and mildly hysterical staff. I am particularly fond of the conference with the parents of one 15-year-old delinquent whose ‘challenging behaviours’ include assault, trouserless arson, drug-dealing in maths class and supergluing the music master to the harp.
