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1970: WARREN MITCHELL on life at OXFORD | Nationwide | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
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10:07Now Playing"Of course, one had to learn how to get drunk like a gentleman, we were not encouraged to drink in pubs" - Warren Mitchell.
Warren Mitchell, best known for his portrayal of Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part, returns to Oxford, where he studied at University College during World War Two.
Warren reminisces about his experiences there, as a middle class Jewish Grammar School boy getting to grips with life among the elite public school boys. He visits his old college room, the historic dining hall where he was 'sconced' for breaking etiquette, does a few laps of the Iffley Road running track, where Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, and rows on the river. In 1944, he and fellow student Richard Burton joined the RAF. Does he hold any regrets for leaving Oxford?
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 13 August, 1970.
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