A serial in six parts by Peter Tinniswood
With Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Liz Goulding as Rosie, Christian Rodska as William and Bill Wallis as Winston
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
See Peter Tinniswood, left

Writer Peter Tinniswood explains his delight at the return of an old friend.
Winston is back - my old friend the village poacher, with his fat, brown boozer's belly and his 'bits of fluff on the side'.
Winston Hayballs first appeared in my radio play The Village Fete. We were lucky enough to win the Giles Cooper award and the Sony Best Script award in 1987 for that production, and I was thrilled to be asked to write more about the adventures of Winston and the Empsons.
As ever, the setting is the village of Winterleaf Gunner, somewhere in the West Country of England. Winston has now been booted out of his house by his wife, 'the ugly old party with the incipient ankles', and has taken refuge in the Empsons' home at the old Dower House.
Quite naturally there is instant chaos.
Winston, the weaver of spells, the country philosopher, cajoles, entrances and infuriates the Empsons as, swiftly and decisively, he turns their lives upside down.
I adore writing about this family. They'll be appearing again in my latest novel, Hayballs, along with Winston and others. But above all it gives me the chance of working once more with the magnificent cast of The Village Fete: Bill Wallis as Winston, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Maurice Denham as father, Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska. Like producer Shaun MacLoughlin, they are absolutely brilliant.
If you don't like Winston, it won't be their fault.
As Winston would say: 'We hopes you like it, look. But if you doesn't, then who you got to blame, look, is that emaciated, bearded blokie with the big ears, Peter Tinniswood. That you has, my dears, without a doubt.'
Winston, Wednesday 12.25pm

'Hayballs' will be published by Century Hutchinson on 1 June. Peter Tinniswood's 'Tales from a Long Room', read by Robin Bailey, are available on a BBC Radio Collection double cassette, £5 99 from book and record shops.