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The Happiest Days Of Your Life. Image shows from L to R: Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim). Copyright: London Films / Individual Pictures
The Happiest Days Of Your Life

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

  • 1950 film

In a Whitehall mix-up, an all-girls' boarding school, St Swithin's, is "re-evacuated" to share the facilities of all-boys' school Nutbourne College. Stars Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Guy Middleton, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby and more.

  • Repeated Friday 18th April at 4:40pm on TPTV

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Press clippings

From Python to The Young Ones, how British comedy and music became forever linked

As he releases a new book looking back at the history of British comedy, writer David Stubbs explains how it's always found an unlikely friend in music.

David Stubbs, Rolling Stone, 2nd August 2023

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