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Audrey educates the new squire into the ways of the Lord of the Manor. Adapted from TV, with Penelope Keith. From January 1997.

Cash-strapped Lady of the Manor, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton has been forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband died.

With her butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.

From this vantage point, Audrey is set to keep a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent.

She must educate the new squire into the ways of the Lord of the Manor...

Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron.

Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV script.

Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith
Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron
Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne
Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle
Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers
Ned …. Frank Middlemass

First piloted for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio, but whisked off to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 in January 1997.

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