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Alan Bennett - The History Boys

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The History Boys

I've known nostalgia for my Oxford days at all and I'm happy never to have to sit in examination again. In play writing there are no examinations unless that is you count the Viber vouch in the audience puts the actors through every night. It's partly by having this confusing educational history but also with being associated with John Miller and Peter Koch who were in the putt lights. You lot in the play about history rattling over the points where you can go either way. The junior commoner was a very strong institution, used to have concerts at the end of every term. These concerts were quite drunken and smotty affairs really,. humour was a wouldn't bear examination really did

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