1970s’ Sidcot ‘a hellhole’, says Justin Webb

'The board of governors, the headmaster, the senior teachers, all of them – abrogated responsibility.'

by Rebecca Hardy 4th February 2022

The Radio 4 presenter Justin Webb has made a number of historical allegations about his time at the Quaker-founded Sidcot School. The BBC Today programme host told the Friend that, while he has heard that the Somerset school is a positive place now, when he boarded there in the 1970s from the age of eleven it was ‘a hellhole’.