Anyone who attended a grim Christian Brothers school will feel a pang of envy towards the students receiving writing tips from Booker winner Roddy Doyle and Oscar nominee Lenny Abrahamson in Them’s Fighting Words (RTÉ One, 9.35pm). The pupils are encouraged to reach for the stars – a novelty in an education system that historically inculcated in young people the belief that they must never get above themselves, lest they receive a clip around the ear as payback.
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