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With their love lives in a tangle, Audrey falls out with Marjory.

With their love lives in a tangle, Audrey falls out with Marjory. Written for radio. Stars Penelope Keith. From March 1997.

With their love-lives in a tangle, Audrey falls out with Marjory. 

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
 
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 on radio and then hijacked by TV before it ever appeared, and 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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