In 1990 a little known show called This Is David Harper was on channel 4. It was the brainchild of Stephen Fry. It starred a bad-ass, dedicated reporter called David Harper played by Tony Slattery. The series parodies Roger Cook style investigative journalism shows. For fans of Brass Eye or anything Chris Morris has graced, it is essential viewing. It can found on youtube.
This episode is about children who are brought up in a special school with an insane, totalitarian principle to churn out super intelligent children but with startling social side-effects. the programme starts with the reporter's explanation that after writing an opera for a school project that the 6 year old prodigy 'has also found time to work on a 400 page novel which he claims picks up where Finnegans Wake left off'
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