Secret Teacher: It's beyond time to ditch single-sex schools

"Irish people have been warned against sex for generations, so our obsession is natural. Sex was that enticing, but deadly, elephant in the room, like the giant red button poor Dougal in Father Ted can’t help but press."

Secret Teacher: 'On his Desert Island Discs episode, Russell T Davies, creator of It's a Sin, recalls his father, head of the Swansea rugby club, taking a “skinny gay boy” (as he describes himself) to one side, to have a few words about his lack of interest in the sport. He said he couldn't care less, and encouraged him to do something he loved.'

On his Desert Island Discs episode, Russell T Davies recalls his father, head of the Swansea rugby club, taking a “skinny gay boy” (as he describes himself) to one side, to have a few words about his lack of interest in the sport.

What did he say? That he couldn’t care less, so long as he did whatever he wanted to do. Russell T Davies followed through, becoming the screenwriter who stopped us in our tracks this year with It’s A Sin. What a father!