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Hard-up Audrey needs a secret job, but what is she qualified to do?

Hard-up Audrey needs a secret job, but what is she qualified to do? Adapted from TV with Penelope Keith. From February 1997.

Hard-up Audrey needs a secret job - but what on earth is she qualified to do? 

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

First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, finally arrived 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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