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The Pickerskill Detentions

First broadcast from 20050713 to 20050803.

Dr Henry Pickerskill, retired English Master of Haunchurst College for boys looks back on his most memorable detentions.

  • The series was repeated as a tribute to Ian Richardson, shortly after his death.
 

Radio 4  Radio 4

4 episodes

 
SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst
Broadcast		RepeatedDescription
0101A Pickerskill Excursion2005071320070221In an attempt to illustrate the finality of death to three disrespectful boys, Dr Pickerskill persuades them to lock him in a tomb. And when Pickerskill attempts to educate school bully Stealgroynes about the dangers of dunking freshmen, he discovers that the boy is just as much at home in the water as out of it.
0102A Textbook Detention2005072020070228Pickerskill's doctoring of a hated school textbook amuses him greatly and goes unnoticed until an unfortunate detention in the late fifties where the subversive book is mistakenly used by another teacher.
0103Smoking Wet2005072720070307Pickerskill receives four boys into his detention after theyve been caught selling cigarettes to minors. He decides to engage them completely in a concentrated, practical application of supply and demand. Pickerskill sets up a market place in detention to teach them that cigarettes must be smoked if they're to make them any money.
0104 LASTThe Black-eyed Marketeer2005080320070314Pickerskill recalls a detention from 1941. Augustus Calman's father is the Under-Minister of Wartime Provisions and ensures his son gets only the best food. When the boy is sent to detention for selling on high class provisions, Calman soon discovers his father's black market connections are no match for the Luftwaffe.
 

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