Academic and literary careers have been built on tracing Kipling's "originals." One way to look at Kipling's fiction: there is always a lot more Rudyard in it than you might suspect. Kipling's men and boys in KIM, THE JUNGLE BOOKS, MULVANEY STORIES and other narratives were based on living three-dimensional people whom he had met, interacted with or whose real-life stories others had told him. By contrast with the Prague writer, Kipling's narrative genius did not consist in making up characters whole cloth from a vivid imagination. The story was dramatised by Alexander Baron.Rudyard Kipling was no Franz Kafka. Location filming took place at Hurn Court School near Bournemouth on the south coast of England.
Their mortal enemy was the savagely sarcastic Latin teacher Mr King (John Woodnutt), who was also Master of another house. Their friends included the Padre (Rowland Davies), Colonel Dabney (Denis Carey) – a retired officer who had served in India – and “Foxy” (Ronald Herdman), a retired infantry sergeant and the school sergeant. He eventually became the editor of the school newspaper. M’Turk (Robert Burbage) had a highly developed sense of honour and a smouldering hatred of bullies, prefects and unsportsmanlike conduct.īeetle (David Parfitt) was the wit of the gang and writer of scurrilous poems and songs. Stalky (Robert Addie) was the son of an officer serving in the Indian Army, a great thinker and planner, and the leader of a group of inseparable friends. The series chronicled the lives of three boys of Study #5 in Mr Prout’s house. Set in the 1880s, the story accurately captured life in “the coll”, a school located in Devon which catered to boys who would go on to govern and defend the British Empire in the Civil Service, Foreign Service and the military. This six-part BBC miniseries was a faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, based on his own experiences at public school (he based the character of Beetle on himself).
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