Dispatches: After School Arms Club

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Did anyone else see this pointed, but very funny, documentary on Channel 4 last night. Mark Thomas got two groups of school-children, one set of nice middle class English comprehensive kids and one set of Irish Catholic schoolgirls and a Nun, dealing arms and torture equipment.

He writes about it here.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200604030014

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

i have a lot of respect for mark thomas, and thought this show was great (and rerun of The Falling Man on more 4 just afterwards was also very good)

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh I thought they were Oxford Students.

The girls (wherever they were from) were quit ecute in trying to remember parrot fashion the names/etc of the tanks/people they were dealing with.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Way, i was on that documentary, i was one of the as you put it 'nice middle class English comprehensive kids' it was really fun to do, and it turns out some people actually watched it!

― Kris Wilcox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

It was a very amusing way of making an important point. Well done to you and all the rest of you, I learnt a good deal.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

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