Middle-classic TV: Just An Ordinary School

As some of the posher elements of the Conservative Party try to show how ordinary they are, it seems a good time to revisit what some of us at the MCH feel is a bit of a neglected classic of British comedy - Victoria Wood's spoof documentary of girls' private school. Twenty years ago, British telly featured quite a lot of programmes in which upper- and upper-middle-class people were, essentially, allowed to make themselves look silly with their limited experience of life. It seems that either they learned their lessons and began refusing to take part, or producers lost interest and took inspiration from Jeremy Kyle; these days, it's the underclass who tend to fill that role.