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Mr Harris Makes It Up
- Author
- F X Prendiville
- Narrator
- F X Prendiville
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Publish Date
- 28 August 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Manchester, 1977, Graham Harris a compassionate, newly qualified teacher, is struggling to inspire his class of bottom-stream 11-year-olds when a 6ft Redcoat soldier marches into the classroom and changes everything - for the children, and for Graham.
So begins his campaign to transform these young lives with a passion for drama.The trouble is, not everyone approves of his radical thinking, and dark forces in the staffroom set out to undermine his approach.
'Mr Harris Makes It Up ' is a humorous heart-warming and gritty odyssey through life in a northern city at a time when kids were obsessed with Space Dust, Blue Jeans magazine and the Bay City Rollers – but it has plenty to say about the role of the arts in schools.
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Details
- Author
- F X Prendiville
- Narrator
- F X Prendiville
- Duration
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781805145912
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Manchester, 1977, Graham Harris a compassionate, newly qualified teacher, is struggling to inspire his class of bottom-stream 11-year-olds when a 6ft Redcoat soldier marches into the classroom and changes everything - for the children, and for Graham.So begins his campaign to transform these young lives with a passion for drama.The trouble is, not everyone approves of his radical thinking, and dark forces in the staffroom set out to undermine his approach. 'Mr Harris Makes It Up ' is a humorous heart-warming and gritty odyssey through life in a northern city at a time when kids were obsessed with Space Dust, Blue Jeans magazine and the Bay City Rollers – but it has plenty to say about the role of the arts in schools.
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