Stiff Upper Lip Now the major BBC Radio 4 series IN DARK CORNERS

<p><b>''A brave and necessary book'' <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><b>''Shocking, gripping and sobering'' <i>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</i></b><br><br>No other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.<br><br>Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and paedophile teachers are just some of the features of this elite education, and, while some children loved boarding school, others now admit to suffering life-altering psychological damage. <i>Stiff Upper Lip </i>exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world.<br><br>Award-winning investigative journalist Alex Renton went to three traditional boarding schools. Drawing on those experiences, and the vivid testimony of hundreds of former pupils, he has put together a compelling history, important to anyone wondering what shaped the people who run Britain in the twenty-first century.</p>