''Swots'' was a 2009 BBC

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radio

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hosted by

Miles Jupp Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp (born 8 September 1979) is an English actor, singer, and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian before playing the role of the inventor Archie in the children's television series ''Balamory''. He also played ...

. First broadcast on

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it has been repeated on

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. The show is set in a fictional 1960's classroom and involves a series of comedy rounds based loosely on typical classroom activities such as spelling and mathematics. The British comedy guide considered it "A very patchy, bizarre series. Some is rather funny; everyone on the panel is clearly having fun and Jupp delivers some good (scripted) gags."

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* * BBC Radio Scotland programmes 2009 radio programme debuts {{BBC-radio-stub