August - Islington's Rebel School

Available for 27 days

Writer John L Williams remembers the stifling summer that loosened societal norms and laid the foundations for modern-day Britain. "A new generation of teachers had grown up in the ferment of the sixties and wanted to do away with the rote learning and corporal punishment of their own childhoods." Read by Dean Rehman Abridged by Rosemary Goring Produced by Eilidh McCreadie A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4.