The History Boys

And thank you to people like Pi and Jamie who are working so hard to, to kind of help bring that about in the best possible way.

That's a great place to end SF, but it reminds me of the end of the History Boys, where the teacher, the inspirational teacher says, I just wanted to pass it on.

There you go.

It's like a baton in a race or something or other.

And we take a look at a play that's been made into a movie.

We'll talk to the director and the stars of the History Boys.

This is really important.

It's the biggest thing that could possibly be happening in their lives, this next step to go to Oxford or Cambridge.

Our thoughts this evening are with Milton Friedman's wife, Rose, his son, David, daughter, Janet, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Milton Friedman, dead at 94 years old.

ALAN BENNETT HAS PLAYED THE HISTORY BOYS, SWEPT THE TONY AWARDS THIS YEAR, WINNING SIX.

IT IS NOW MOTION PICTURE WITH THE ORIGINAL STAGE CAST.

... 1960s-

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English satire.

Hey, we watched this movie.

called the history boys it

was so good and

none of them

I think he might just be one of those actors who just feels like they've been in everything, but nothing particularly stood out.

I mean, look, I would have seen him in the History Boys, but I don't remember him in the History Boys.

And yeah, he's just one of those actors that's so good you just go, I'm sure I've seen this guy in other stuff, but no, I don't think I have.

Yeah, I like actors like that.

And I've just had to look it up because I couldn't remember the whole thing.

But it makes me think of that quote from... a play that you've been in which i wasn't and i was gutted that i couldn't be the history boys um the quote by uh the history boys is a play written by alan bennett and in the play it's about these um it's a group of like seven uh grammar school lads isn't it who are trying to take exams to get into university um and about the lessons they learn from their english teacher And they're English teachers called Mr. Hector.

And there's a film he's played by Richard Griffiths, who also played him in the play, which is the guy that played Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films.

And there's a line in it.

Yes, yes.

But even he was quite closeted, History Boys.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's slightly like, that's not necessarily confirmed, is it? He's not majorly gay.

Ah, the school bus.

Originally, the American schools carted their students to and from home using marvelous horses the size of elephants, but when those horses saw the near extinction of the American bison, they collectively decided to take their leave of our realm to live forever in the undying land known as Jurassic Horse Park, which later became the inspiration for that movie y'all know and love, The History Boys.

In the absence of big horses, we invented buses.

Pause for laugh.