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unusual facts about Porterhouse Blue


Condom machine

In the novel Porterhouse Blue, conflict over an attempt to introduce such a device to a Cambridge college, is one of the factors that leads to murder.


Oxford–Cambridge rivalry

Cambridge may be best known in film as the real-life location of the court race scene portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire (although the scene was filmed at Eton College instead), or for the television series Porterhouse Blue.


see also

Scullion

Skullion - the main character in the novels Porterhouse Blue and Grantchester Grind