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To the Manor Born: Episode 1: The Rhythms of the Earth

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Episode 1: The Rhythms of the Earth

The Rhythms of the Earth

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Audrey educates the new squire into the ways of the Lord of the Manor.

Audrey educates the new squire into the ways of the Lord of the Manor. Adapted from TV, with Penelope Keith. From January 1997.

Cash-strapped Lady of the Manor, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton has been forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband died.  

With her butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.

From this vantage point, Audrey is set to keep a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent.

She must educate the new squire into the ways of the Lord of the Manor...

Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron. 

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

Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith
Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron
Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne
Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle
Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers
Ned …. Frank Middlemass

First piloted for BBC radio, but whisked off to BBC TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 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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