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To the Manor Born

Penelope Keith

Peter Bowles

To the Manor Born: A Wife's Prerogative

A Wife's Prerogative

BBC Radio 4 Extra - To the Manor Born, A Wife's Prerogative

Audrey makes the most of helping Devere by pretending she is his wife.

Audrey makes the most of helping Devere by pretending she is his wife. Adapted from TV with Penelope Keith. From March 1997.

Audrey makes the most of helping Devere - by pretending she's his wife.

Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron.

Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage with her butler in tow.

From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere.

Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script.

Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere 
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Mademoiselle Dutoit ..... Rula Lenska

First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. 

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.

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Penelope Keith stars in the sitcom about a woman forced to sell her family estate.

Penelope Keith stars in the sitcom about a woman forced to sell her family estate. Adapted from the BBC TV series.

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