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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang, also released as Kipperbang, is a British television film first shown on Channel 4 on its second night, 3 November 1982. Written by Jack Rosenthal as part of the First Love series, it is a coming-of-age film set in a grammar school in the outer London suburbs of the late forties (1948).
P’Tang, Yang, Kipperbang (the title stems from an invented expression which the boys use as a coded greeting and catchphrase) is a humorous drama, faithfully representing a postwar schoolboy’s existence.
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang: Directed by Michael Apted. With John Albasiny, Abigail Cruttenden, Maurice Dee, Alison Steadman. Alan Duckworth (known as 'Quack Quack' to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class.
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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang, also released as Kipperbang, is a British television film first shown on Channel 4 on its second night, 3 November 1982.
May 21, 2016 · Of course ‘p’tang yang kipperbang’ is a nonsense phrase, used repeatedly by fourteen-year-old Alan Duckworth and his school friends. They have a penchant for other extravagant verbal inventions, especially to express their revulsion for girls, kissing etc (‘vomituosity’ and words to that effect).
'P'Tang, Yang, Kipperbang' (the title stems from an invented expression which the boys use as a coded greeting and catchphrase) is a humorous drama, faithfully representing a postwar schoolboy's existence.
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The ‘substantially autobiographical’ 4 elements of the film are made clear by Rosenthal, and also metafictionally within the film itself. In P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang we follow the fortunes of fourteen-year-old schoolboy Alan Duckworth (John Albasiny) during the summer term of 1948.
