Andrew Sachs: Teenagers should not study Brand 'sex talk'

Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs says it is wrong that a transcript of obscene phone messages left for him by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross are now part of a school's GCSE course.

The calls, which referred to the 81-year-old actor's granddaughter Georgina Baillie, were broadcast on Brand's Radio 2 show in 2008. In them, he referred to having "lovely sex" with the aspiring actress.

Hampstead School pupils are studying the transcript as part of their English language GCSE course.

Sachs said: "I am a father and I would not want my daughter or son studying that. There are plenty of other things you could be doing. It's too early to be teaching that kind of sex talk in school."

His wife Melody said the couple were "tired" of the issue. "We just want it to go away. But when I saw this school thing I thought, 'I don't believe this'Why should anyone be reminded that something dreadful happened?"

Hampstead School head Jacques Szemalikowski defended the decision to use the transcript, saying: "This is the real world, and children are in the world."