Summerhill | |
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Genre | Children's drama |
Written by | Alison Hume |
Directed by | Jon East |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Tiger Aspect Productions |
Original release | |
Network | CBBC |
Release | 21 January 29 January 2008 | –
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Summerhill is a British children's television drama about the famously radical Summerhill School in Leiston in Suffolk, [1] written by Alison Hume and directed by Jon East. It was first broadcast on the CBBC Channel in January 2008 and was subsequently nominated for three children's BAFTA awards: Best Drama, Best Writer (for Alison Hume) and Breakthrough Talent (for Eliot Otis Brown Walters). It won the awards for writer & breakthrough nominations.[2] The show launched the careers of a number of young actors, most notably Jessie Cave who went on to star as 'Lavender Brown' in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and also Olly Alexander, Eliot Otis Brown Walters, and Holly Bodimeade.
The series was also shown on BBC One,[3] and as a feature-length film on BBC Four.[4]