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Boarders review: The BBC's new school drama is a lesson in lazy stereotypes, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Christopher Stevens writes: 'Every kind of stereotype is on display in Boarders, a comedy-drama about five Black pupils from South London parachuted into a posh public school.'
The headmaster (Derek Riddell) starts morning assembly with a Latin motto, and insists on having the scholarship five photographed in front of a portrait of the school’s founder, which depicts an 18th-century toff with a Black servant in attendance. In fact, the series is filmed in Bristol, where one school has been obliged to change its name to erase the memory of its own founder, Edward Colston — the chap whose statue went swimming in the docks. The Garrison pub, stamping ground of the Shelby brothers in Peaky Blinders, was the backdrop for Bring The Drama (BBC2), as presenter Bill Bailey’s eight aspiring actors rehearsed and filmed a scene from the gangster serial.
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