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2 unusual facts about The Higher Mortals


The Higher Mortals

original music: David Hewson (some familiar classical pieces are also used, and the closing credits are set to a rewritten version of I Vow to Thee, My Country, heavily ironic in the circumstances)

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On the day that education secretary Mrs Fry (who somewhat resembles the then government minister Virginia Bottomley) arrives to speak at the school's Speech Day, she is kidnapped by the inner-city children and tells them, incorrectly, that she will announce that the scheme of sending inner-city children to Crabbe College was a pointless waste of time and that the school was outmoded anyway.



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