The Guinea Pig
N what Henry Wallace has called the Age of the Common Man even such | | exclusive institutions as England’s public | schools have had to open their oaken doors to the sons of workers. In increasing numbers the sons of England’s working class have entered schools which, _ whatever their deficiencies, provide first"class teaching and the foundations. of | honourable character. This change in a system dedicated for hundreds of years to educating the privileged was not without its problems. These problems are dealt with, provocatively, if not exhaustively, in Warren Chetham-Strode’s play The Guinea Pig, which will be broadcast from 2YC this Friday, May 8, at 8.0 p.m., and later from other stations. Adapted for radio by Martyn C. Webster, The Guinea Pig was produced at the Wellington Production Studios of the NZBS. The scholarship boy Read is played by John Carson-Parker, the conservative housemaster Lloyd Hartley by Roy Leywood, the helpful house tutor Nigel Lorraine by William Austin, and Mrs. Hartley by Olive Lucius,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 11
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165The Guinea Pig New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 11
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