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What's in a Name?

Episode 3 of 10

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.

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 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.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Apr 202502:00

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RoleContributor
ActorPenelope Keith
ActorPeter Bowles

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