They Fly Forgotten

Ancoats in the 1920s is a wretched industrial slum near Manchester, whose inhabitants, scraping a living, have no interest in education. But young Thomas Davies, a schoolteacher, thinks differently. His runny-nosed, ignorant, violent pupils are going to learn about history, art and the outside world if it's the last thing he does. He will bring the glory that was Greece to the squalour that is Ancoats - not to mention Shakespeare, Verdi, Beowolf, Heathenish gods, the Americal Civil War and Achilles...