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With news of a New Year's Honour for a villager, Audrey is nice to Devere.

With news of a New Year's Honour for a villager, Audrey is nice to Devere. Adapted from TV with Penelope Keith. From March 1997.

News leaks out that someone in the community is to appear in the New Year's Honours list. Will it be Devere?

Audrey finds herself having to be nice to him, just in case...

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 
Brigadier ...... Jonathan Adams 

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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