Synopsis
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is one of this country's leading character actors - Richard Griffiths. Most recently, he won three Best Actor awards for playing the English master in Alan Bennett's play 'The History Boys' but he has cross-generational appeal - perpetual adolescents revere his performance as gay Uncle Monty in the film Withnail and I while the younger generation know him as beastly Uncle Vernon from the Harry Potter films.
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Other Archive resources
The History Boys (2006) | Irwin discusses the origins of WW2
Irwin discusses the origins of the Second World War.
The History Boys (2006) | The French class
Hector runs a class entirely in French, which the students decide to set in a Brothel until they are interrupted by Headmaster Irwin.