The Sons of Catholic Gentlemen

2000

It is 1958. 15-year-old Peter Jackson is abruptly plucked from his working class northern community and sent to a splendid and expensive Jesuit-run boarding school. He sets himself the task of getting expelled, an aim he finally achieves by blasphemously mocking the transubstantiated host in the chapel. But the people he met at Stanislaus Hall, and the hatreds he developed there, stay with him as he goes out into the world and climbs the greasy pole.

Originally written for radio, The Sons of Catholic Gentlemen won the Independent Radio Drama Productions award in 2000 and was broadcast on LBC.  There is both a radio and a theatre version available.