The writer and cast of Boarders – about five black teenagers with scholarships to an elite boarding school – on code switching, education and opportunity.
Daniel Lawrence Taylor, writer of the BBC comedy drama Boarders and the BAFTA-nominated series Timewasters, remembers feeling out of place while at university.
“It was predominantly white, predominantly middle class and it was like a proper culture shock to me,” the actor and writer says frankly.
Daniel, who attended Royal Holloway, University of London, says this experience, in part, helped to shape the narrative in Boarders, his new series about five talented, black teenagers who have just won scholarships to the fictional, elite boarding school St Gilbert’s.