The Burston Rebellion (1985)

Director: Norman Stone

Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.

Cast

Eileen Atkins

Kitty Higdon

Bernard Hill

Tom Higdon

John Shrapnel

Rev. Charles Tucker Eland

Thelma Whiteley

Mrs Eland

Nicola Cowper

Violet Potter

Geoffrey Chater

Magistrate

John Abineri

Farmer Fowler

Henry Moxon

Frederick Starr

Peter Benson

Peggram

Robert Duncan

Casey