Jonty Claypole

It's still his...

it's still his voice that we're dealing with in different ways in literature.

So, you know, I don't think anyone else comes close really in terms of innovation to Chaucer.

Yes.

I'd love to see Troilus and Crusade.

You've been listening to The Secret Life of Berks.

Sophie, what's your favourite American high school film?

Most of them.

Yeah.

Is that your favourite?

Ah, yes.

With John Cusack holding up the stereo at the end, right?

Totally.

I also made a list.

And there's not as much crossover as I thought there might be.

I've got Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mean Girls, Superbad.

Heathers, Dead Poets Society, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dazed and Confused, and here's my all-time favourite, The Breakfast Club, which was on your list as well.

And I would say that some of those films are not only my favourite American high school films, they're some of my favourite films of all time.

And there is not a similar tradition in Britain.

Like there are British films about school, but there is something about the American high school film from about 1980 onwards that has emerged as a genre in its own right.