Terence Frisby who wrote the longest running comedy in the history of the West End, There’s a Girl in my Soup, entertained pupils with his experience as an evacuee in a small village in Cornwall. He described to the audience how he had to travel across the country with thousands of other children and the dangerous things that a child evacuee was exposed to. It was the latter which he asked Friends’ students to focus on during some drama based group work.
Dominic McGann, AYear 9 student who attended the workshop said, “The talk was extremely interesting and taught us a lot about a period of time which is unimaginable to people of our age. It was also really refreshing to hear about his evacuation story as, unlike most I have heard about, it was a happy one.”
Mr Frisby’s book Kisses on a Postcard goes into more detail about his experience of growing up as an evacuee child in an extraordinary time.