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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)

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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