Child, child. If you come to this doomed house, what is to save you?"

Poor but wise orphan, Flora Poste decides to live with her relatives in Sussex

In 1932, Stella Gibbons' book was acclaimed as a wickedly funny send-up of a certain kind of heavy-breathing novel about the doom-laden everyday life of country folk. Since then it has become a classic of comedy in its own right.

Abridged in six parts and produced by Pamela Howe.

Read by Kenneth Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1974. Show less