On The Box: The BritBox Podcast
Jul 20, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
Put the tissues away. It's the last episode of season one. But we are finishing up the series with bonafide national treasure, David Morrissey! The star of *Sherwood, The Walking Dead* and so many…
And also, I'll just say, like, as an American, I'm always fascinated by the English schooling system because-
I mean, we have, um, in the US, private schools, which, in England, they call them public schools, so it's a bit confusing, I think-
But our private schools, which can cost a ton of money, and certainly it's the elite, and they go to all the Ivy League schools, et cetera.
But for some reason, it just strikes me as different when it comes to, I guess, the historical lore that so many English, quote, unquote, "public schools" have.
You know, those are the kind of big ones, but you do get kind of private schools that are day schools, so the kids are kind of coming home at night.
So it's almost like a, a halfway between a kind of what we call state school and, and, and private school.
Um, but yeah, it's amazing the stories that it can throw up, the history that's associated there.
So my kids go to, uh, a day school, um, in Gloucester, um, and they're associated with Gloucester Cathedral, and it's, it ...
the school's, like, like f- like hundreds of years old, and it's got two amazing connections with America, right?
And also, I'll just say, like, as an American, I'm always fascinated by the English schooling system because-
I mean, we have, um, in the US, private schools, which, in England, they call them public schools, so it's a bit confusing, I think-
But our private schools, which can cost a ton of money, and certainly it's the elite, and they go to all the Ivy League schools, et cetera.
But for some reason, it just strikes me as different when it comes to, I guess, the historical lore that so many English, quote, unquote, "public schools" have.
You know, those are the kind of big ones, but you do get kind of private schools that are day schools, so the kids are kind of coming home at night.
So it's almost like a, a halfway between a kind of what we call state school and, and, and private school.
Um, but yeah, it's amazing the stories that it can throw up, the history that's associated there.
So my kids go to, uh, a day school, um, in Gloucester, um, and they're associated with Gloucester Cathedral, and it's, it ...
the school's, like, like f- like hundreds of years old, and it's got two amazing connections with America, right?
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