5. The Fight to be Headmaster

Available for 29 days

It’s 1929. Davy Powlett-Jones is about to face his greatest challenge yet at Bamfylde School. Daggers are drawn with the new Headmaster, Alcock. It's clear the two men cannot work together. One of them will have to go… RF Delderfield's classic novel of life between the wars. Stars Oliver Milburn. Dramatised by Shaun McKenna. Davy Powlett-Jones .... Oliver Milburn Algy Herries …. John Wood Howarth .... John Rowe Carter .... Anthony Calf Alcock .... Clive Merrison Christine Forster .... Kate Buffery Barnaby/Rigby .... Gerard McDermott Grace Powlett-Jones …. Alison Pettitt Hislop .... Antony Glennon Gage .... Delroy Brown Lowther .... Steven Roberts "Stoker" Monk .... Steven Williams Director: Cherry Cookson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.