The Burston Rebellion (1985)

8.0/10 87 min Drama History TV Movie

Overview

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

Nicola Cowper

Violet Potter

Geoffrey Chater

Magistrate

John Abineri

Farmer Fowler

Peter Benson

Peggram

Norman Jones

Walter Garnham

Peter Whitbread

Noah Sandy

Peter Tuddenham

Clerk of Courts

Alexandra Boyd

Marjory Ling

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