'I'm sick of Dada's reputation'

'I'm sick of Dada's reputation'

Add Mr Burton to your watchlist Richard Jenkins is a tricky teenager. He lives with his sister and brother-in-law in a Welsh mining town near Port Talbot, his mother long since dead, his father an alcoholic. This is 1942 and young Richard dreams of becoming an actor, but his brother-in-law insists he leave school and pay his way – the Second World War means rations and shortages. But Richard’s English teacher, Philip Burton, sees something in th…