Mr Majeika (Mr Majeika, 1)

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Baxter was brought up in the West End of Glasgow, in a tenement. [12] He lived there from the age of five until he married actress Moira Robertson at 26 years of age. He later lived in Highgate, North London. He was married for 46 years until his wife's death in 1997 of an overdose while he was overseas. [13] Baxter was known for his impressions of famous people, particularly The Queen (referred to in the context of the shows as 'the Duchess of Brendagh'). The Stanley Baxter Show ran between 1963 and 1971 on BBC One, and The Stanley Baxter Picture Show from 1972 to 1975 on ITV; the six-part Stanley Baxter Series was made by LWT in 1981. Eight one-hour TV specials were made by LWT and the BBC between 1973 and 1986. The first book proved very popular and it became a notableular series in Britain. Some of the books in the series included: Mr. Majeika and the Music Teacher, Mr. Majeika And The Haunted Hotel, Mr. Majeika and the School Play, Mr. Majeika and the School Book Week, Mr.

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Is the new teacher, Mr. Majeika, responsible for peculiar goings-on at St. Barty's School? When your teacher is a wizard, anything is possible--even the improvement of school dinners. The excentric teacher at St. Barty's, a British prep school, shows up in a very unusual manner. Mr Majeika, of course, is not ordinary teacher. Mr. Majeika is in fact a magician from the planet Walpurgis teaches who is posing as a teacher. In effect a failed Wizard turned teacher. He has been a wizard for years and has forgotten most of his spells, so he wants to be an ordinary teacher and asks three boys to help him. But Mr Majeika always forgets that he is no longer a wizard anymore. He does, however, try very hard to be a good teacher. Mr Majeika finds a number of ways to deal with pesky Hamish Bigmore and his friends, he turns them into different animals--but this has a variety of complications. Mr. Majeika and his class often could have got into trouble because of Mr Majeika’s magic, but his students really like Mr. Majeika and wants him to teach them next term as well. Humphrey Carpenter; British Biographer". Washington Post. 9 January 2005 . Retrieved 22 April 2011. This whole class reading session aims to develop children’s comprehension skills through a reading of the opening section of Humphrey Carpenter’s ‘Mr Majeika.’ At this time HBC know little about the program. We know that it was primarily a children's program. The programmes were shown on ITV for three consecutive seasons during 1988-90. As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump.The TV series was based on a popular children's book, Mr Majeika written by Humphrey Carpenter. Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford. He attended the Dragon School, before going to Keble College, where his father had been Warden for many years. He is well known as a writer and previously as a producer for the BBC. We almost wonder if this series did not help inspire Harry Potter. Carpenter was quite a prolific writer and his books were qwite varied. We do know he wrote the The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, his major study which was published to great acclaim. He also wrote respected biographies, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (2000), Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop (1997), A Serious Character : The Life of Ezra Pound, Dennis Potter (1999), W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, and C.S Lewis. Another book was The Inklings, but I know nothing about it other than it won the Somerset Maugham Award. He also wrote a popular book on Shakesphere, Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits (1994). There is also a historical book, Makers of Christianity (1995). Carpenter is the author of many children's books including the ever popular Mr. Majeika series (published in Viking Kestrel and Puffin) and (based on the scripts by Jenny McDade) the TV adventures of Mr Majeika starring Stanley Baxter. He has written several plays for theatre and radio and founded the Mushy Pea Theatre Group, a children's drama group based in Oxford, which premiered his Mr. Majeika: The Musical (with music by Anthony Royse) in 1991 and Babes, a musical about the Hollywood child stars.

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In August 2014, Baxter was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. [14] Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005), the author and creator of Mr Majeika, was born and educated in Oxford. He went to a school called the Dragon School where exciting things often happened and there were some very odd teachers - you could even call it magical! He worked for the BBC then became a full-time writer in 1975, and he was the author of many award-winning biographies, including books about J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Benjamin Britten and Spike Milligan.Beacom, Brian (1 November 2020). The Real Stanley Baxter. Luath Press. ISBN 978-1910022054. Quoted in The Scotsman, 30 October 2020 {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) Teach Yourself To Speak Scottish – 4 – Parliamo Glasgow". 11 January 2008 . Retrieved 9 June 2012– via YouTube. During the 1960s, Baxter had his own show on BBC Radio Scotland. [4] In 1994 he returned to radio, taking the role of Noël Coward in the BBC World Service Play of the Week, Marvellous Party [5] directed by Neil Cargill. Written by Jon Wynne-Tyson, it also starred Dorothy Tutin as Coward's lifelong friend, Esme Wynne-Tyson (Jon's mother). Also with Cargill, he read Whisky Galore [6] and Jimmy Swan – The Joy Traveller [7] for BBC Radio, providing the voices of all the characters.