Information for Lessons from History - Paddy Hitler/An Innocuous Prick at Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford (Play). Paddy Hitler - Cooke's play looks at the often-tortured life of Paddy Hitler, son of Hitler's elder half-brother and an Irish mother: as WWII approaches Britain is desperate to win Paddy over to its side. An Innocuous Prick - Cox's play focuses on local rows, riots and politics as compulsory smallpox inoculations are introduced in the late C19 and the impact on the small Oxfordshire town of Charlbury. Double Bill