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Comedy about the eccentric and inept staff at a historic house.

Comedy about the eccentric and inept staff at Plum House, former country home of minor 18th-century poet George Pudding. Written by Ben Cottam and Paul Mckenna.

Simon Callow

Miles Jupp

Jane Horrocks

Tom Bell

Pearce Quigley

Louise Ford

Roger Allam

Sean Gilder

Paul Schlesinger

Ben Cottam

Paul Mckenna

Plum House: Series 1: Episode 4: Peter vs Prynne

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Episode 4: Peter vs Prynne

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Peter vs Prynne

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Tom has organised a special summer event, but will it be remembered for the right reasons?

Tom puts on a summer event, but will it be remembered for the right reasons with all the goings-on? Stars Miles Jupp. From 2016.

Tom has organised a special summer event and invited the great and good from the world of George Pudding scholarship to gather round the museum's celebrated plum tree. 

It's bound to be a day to remember. But with Peter encountering his arch nemesis - the unbearably pompous Mungo Prynne (Roger Allam), Julian upsetting a neighbouring farmer and Emma rather enjoying the plum punch, will it be remembered for the right reasons? 

Starring Simon Callow, Miles Jupp and Jane Horrocks.

Comedy about the inept staff at an historic house written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna

Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. But one place they never go to is Plum House - the former country home of terrible poet George Pudding (1779-1848). Now a crumbling museum, losing money hand over fist, it struggles to stay open under its eccentric curator Peter Knight (Simon Callow). 

Can anyone save Plum House from irreversible decline?

Peter   ......    Simon Callow
Julian   ......    Miles Jupp
Maureen   ......    Jane Horrocks
Tom   ......    Tom Bell
Alan   ......    Pearce Quigley
Emma   ......    Louise Ford
Mungo Prynne   ......    	Roger Allam
Barry Bunting   ......    Sean Gilder

Director: Paul Schlesinger

A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016.

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