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Death of a Headmaster | BBC Sounds OTHERtone with Pharrell, Scott and Fam-Lay | Google Podcasts Twenty-five years ago last week, Philip Lawrence was stabbed. He was the headteacher at St George’s school in Maida Vale, north-west London, and had stepped in to protect a pupil who was being attacked at the school gates by teenagers from another school. Lawrence died later the same day. One of his former pupils, broadcaster Edward Adoo, presents Death of a Headmaster, a touching and fair-minded Radio 4 documentary about Lawrence and his legacy. “He was stabbed through the heart by someone who didn’t care about the values of the heart,” says Lawrence’s widow, Frances. His death “decimated” her life, along with those of their children, and her testimony is both devastating and inspirational. After the stabbing, there was “an outpouring of vitriol against young people”, so she set up the Philip Lawrence awards to celebrate positive actions by teenagers. ....