A Devon comedy by Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts.
Sir Ralph Richardson introduces an excerpt from "Yellow Sands"

Sir Barry Jackson's production presented for television by Barrie Edgar from the stage of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, before an invited audience.

Jenifer Varwell is eighty years old, and her relatives and friends gather to bring her gifts and to drink her health. Jenifer thinks, amiably but firmly, that her relations are 'a terrible poor lot'. There is her merry brother Dick, who might have been a successful man, and is still a witty one, but he is bone idle and given to drink. There is Mary, related by marriage, who is high principled but 'a bleak pattern of woman'. Mary's farmer son Arthur is stolid, and in love with Emma Major, the pretty daughter of Thomas Major, who lives nearby.
But perhaps the most difficult relative is the fire-eating Joe. He is consumed with hatred for all capitalists, among whom he reckons his Aunt Jenifer, who is certainly a wealthy woman, and one who has not ye't made her will. Joe is civil and even affectionate towards his aunt, but he will keep talking of the revolution to come. For all that, he is a good fisherman-and in love with Lydia, though he tries desperately to stifle the emotion.
Tonight's excerpt takes up the story from here.