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The Glittering Prizes Season 1 Episode 5

An Academic Life

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Aired Unknown Feb 18, 1976 on BBC

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AIRED: 2/18/76

At the beginnings of middle age, Gavin Pope is an unhappy sociology lecturer at a redbrick university. He must demonstrate to his students that social issues can be more complex than they imagine.

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Student activism is growing at a redbrick university. When students find what seems to be evidence of racial prejudice, tempers flare.

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By orswel, Jun 16, 2009

This was the oddest episode of this brief series, because it centres on someone we hadn't seen before (and wouldn't see again). This central character is Gavin Pope, another Cambridge graduate, but one never seen or mentioned in any previous episode. A reading of Frederic Raphael's novelization of his television scripts reveals an early scene in the first story in which Pope appears, somewhat older than the other regulars, a sneering, right-wing upper-cruster; but this scene was cut from the television version, so that when episode four unfurls, we have no idea who he is. This fatally damages our engagement with the episode; Gavin's transformation into a committed liberal in middle-age means nothing to us, because we haven't seen him any different.moreless
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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

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Dinsdale Landen	Gavin Pope	Guest Star
Tim Pigott-Smith	Tim Dent	Guest Star
Ray Smith	Austin Denny	Guest Star
Clive Merrison	Bill Bourne	Recurring Role
Jeremy Child	John Cadman	Recurring Role
Suzanne Stone	JoAnn Bourne	Recurring Role