2. Changing Times

Hotel director, Evelyn Orcham must face the threat of a takeover at the Imperial Palace..

Starring Robin Ellis.

Arnold Bennett's novel about the 1930s goings on at London's upmarket Imperial Palace hotel.

Dramatised by Peter Ling.

Evelyn Orcham:....Robin Ellis
Sir Henry Savott:....Derek Waring
Violet Powler:....Charlotte Attenborough
Miss Cass:....Ann Beach
Mr Perosi / Levinson ....Michael Mears
Mrs O'Riordan ....Janet Maw
Miss Maclaren .....Joanna Monro
Dove .....John Hartley
Mr Plimsin ....Stephen Thorne
Barber / Floor waiter ....Mark Bonnar
Crump ....Sean Baker.

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1997.