Little known fact: It was after watching this programme in 1979 that Simon Cowell resolved to write, produce and star in a vehicle that would become known as..... "The X Factor"
Really??? thanks for the bit of my favourite thing ' useless information' I love it!. Could you please corroborate?. Again and genuinely appreciate the comment. Xx
+BloxPhantome I am very interested in the video you mentioned about Tom. Would you mind giving me the link that I can watch the video? I tried to search TH-cam but could not identify it. Thanks!
It strikes me so much that the whole nature and substance of the school, the very life of it is about the boys. Thats as opposed to having this institution running that the boys have to merge into at the expence of their personalities. Im so impressed with the life and spirit of this school
Mark Taylor Hi , well i don't think i have ever been so impressed with an institution before, i have watched the whole series. From the talk in the chapel, in No2 i think it was, onwards i regarded the headmaster as an absolute 'jewel' of a man and as i always say, 'as is the head, so is the body'. All these things are a while back and i don't think that things have stayed that way, but that's another story, so why spoil it. ;-)
The elite choosing their own elite. As so much emphasis was placed on the boys' comportment and presentation how on earth could some poor little working class boy ever have got anywhere near this, no matter how talented he might be? I've no doubt many of the teachers were very good teachers, dedicated to their job. But they lived in a complete bubble, isolated from anyone who wasn't from their own privileged background. They all knew each other and it was basically a comfortable, but viciously exclusive gentlemen's club. Anyone who didn't do spectacularly well in life, having had the benefit of such a spectacularly privileged education, must feel a total failure.
Of course. The whole thing is rigged. As well as this, relatively poor kids will be abashed by the background wealth; for example, what if they are asked on a skiing holiday or a trip to Barbados?
@@trevorbarre5616 Then they can't go. That's a reality of life. Some people build wealth over time, others don't or don't want to. If you don't have wealth but want to build it then get on with doing it. Don't compare yourself and despair at the differences between yourself and others. There will always be someone better off than you.
@@DuskAndHerEmbrace13 Hmmm. I don't think the issue is whether there are people better/worse off than one, but rather that the chips are loaded in our current system unfairly, in that the scions of the more wealthy can 'buy into' the sunny uplands. My youngest daughter, for example, has had to move back in with us because of a lack of affordable rented property - she earns £35 thousand a year. Yet she has friends whose parents have put down incredibly expensive deposits on fashionably expensive flats in such grot boxes as Mile End. Many don't 'build wealth', they inherit or benefit from previously existing wealth. You can call it the "reality of life" but that doesn't stop it being an existential void.
@@Hamsterman691 please look up a very British education and search ( I'm sorry I can't remember the channel I'm thinking of-) a channel that has a film on the suffering of some boarders
Mr Dowlen (music teacher) hasn't aged a day since this was filmed! I met him in 2017 at a reunion for his previous school!!
Thank you so much for posting these. Please post as many as you can.
I would LOVE to see an update episode of all the featured students!
th-cam.com/video/nl01uxfuQfY/w-d-xo.html
What's the name of the musical piece David played (flute)? It was such a tranquility music.
Bach Eb major flute sonata mvt 2 siciliano (flutist here hahah)
Little known fact: It was after watching this programme in 1979 that Simon Cowell resolved to write, produce and star in a vehicle that would become known as..... "The X Factor"
Really??? thanks for the bit of my favourite thing ' useless information' I love it!.
Could you please corroborate?.
Again and genuinely appreciate the comment. Xx
What,that's something to brag about? Seriously? The X Factor?
+BloxPhantome I am very interested in the video you mentioned about Tom. Would you mind giving me the link that I can watch the video? I tried to search TH-cam but could not identify it. Thanks!
I THINK OUR STUDENTS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A GOWN TO CLASS LIKE THESE ENGLISH YOUNG MEN DO
Radley College in 1979
Do we know who the narrator was? I can't see any sign of him at the end credits.
It was Richard Denton who has appeared in the comments elsewhere to confirm that it was him
Which one is Tom Johnson's father, and which his mother?
Very droll....but true. LMAO!!
It strikes me so much that the whole nature and substance of the school, the very life of it is about the boys. Thats as opposed to having this institution running that the boys have to merge into at the expence of their personalities. Im so impressed with the life and spirit of this school
Mark Taylor Hi , well i don't think i have ever been so impressed with an institution before, i have watched the whole series. From the talk in the chapel, in No2 i think it was, onwards i regarded the headmaster as an absolute 'jewel' of a man and as i always say, 'as is the head, so is the body'. All these things are a while back and i don't think that things have stayed that way, but that's another story, so why spoil it. ;-)
The elite choosing their own elite. As so much emphasis was placed on the boys' comportment and presentation how on earth could some poor little working class boy ever have got anywhere near this, no matter how talented he might be?
I've no doubt many of the teachers were very good teachers, dedicated to their job. But they lived in a complete bubble, isolated from anyone who wasn't from their own privileged background. They all knew each other and it was basically a comfortable, but viciously exclusive gentlemen's club.
Anyone who didn't do spectacularly well in life, having had the benefit of such a spectacularly privileged education, must feel a total failure.
Of course. The whole thing is rigged. As well as this, relatively poor kids will be abashed by the background wealth; for example, what if they are asked on a skiing holiday or a trip to Barbados?
@@trevorbarre5616 Then they can't go. That's a reality of life. Some people build wealth over time, others don't or don't want to. If you don't have wealth but want to build it then get on with doing it. Don't compare yourself and despair at the differences between yourself and others. There will always be someone better off than you.
@@DuskAndHerEmbrace13 Hmmm. I don't think the issue is whether there are people better/worse off than one, but rather that the chips are loaded in our current system unfairly, in that the scions of the more wealthy can 'buy into' the sunny uplands. My youngest daughter, for example, has had to move back in with us because of a lack of affordable rented property - she earns £35 thousand a year. Yet she has friends whose parents have put down incredibly expensive deposits on fashionably expensive flats in such grot boxes as Mile End.
Many don't 'build wealth', they inherit or benefit from previously existing wealth. You can call it the "reality of life" but that doesn't stop it being an existential void.
The boy who got top scholarship would never know that in 4 decades his place would be taken by someone of Asian-Hispanic descent.
What do you mean?
You have stolen someone else's whole channel!!! ???!!!! ???????
Were they paid off? Johnson's oboe playing was insultingly awful. David was the absolutely best of the bunch. Johnson must have a "great" personality.
I wonder whether they were reluctant to give it to David given he was a Lord to be and probably came from wealth.
@@Hamsterman691 please look up a very British education and search ( I'm sorry I can't remember the channel I'm thinking of-) a channel that has a film on the suffering of some boarders
They probably thought Johnson was better looking.