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The
'public school': Brasenose College, Oxford
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CREDITS
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Eton
College has hosted plenty of productions over the years but, unsurprisingly, the school passed up the opportunity to
house this film of Julian Mitchellís play about a gay
public schoolboy (loosely based
on the life of Guy Burgess) who defects to Moscow.
The setting was finally supplied by the quads of Brasenose
College (the fountain was added for the movie)
in the centre of Oxford,
entrance at Radcliffe Square opposite the Radcliffe
Camera.
The quads are open to the public (admission free), usually
on week day afternoons, but itís best to check times
in advance. You can see the oval windows, where besotted
Guy Bennett (Rupert
Everett) passes the note to Harcourt (Cary
Elwes), along the eastern wall of the small central
quad.
The church parade, where the students sing while Bennett
makes cow eyes at young Harcourt, was filmed in the Old
Schools Quadrangle of the Bodleian
Library, north of Radcliffe Square.
Interiors
were filmed at the family seat (since 1508) of the Spencers,
Althorp in Northamptonshire – Earl Spencer himself appears
as an extra in the film. The estate, now famous
as the burial site of Princess Diana, is six miles northwest of Northampton
on the A428.
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Althorp, six miles northwest of Northampton
on the A428. Open to the
public, with prior bookings.
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