1. Disgrace

Hollywood, 1947. Failed poet/screenwriter Dennis Barlow has disgraced the English community by taking a job in a pets' cemetery.

He is given the chance to redeem himself by arranging a colleague's funeral, but love rather than redemption looms at the Whispering Glades Funeral Home.

Starring Rupert Graves as Dennis Barlow and Miranda Richardson as Aimee Thanatogenous.

Evelyn Waugh's 1948 satire on the American way of death, adapted in three episodes by Bill Matthews.

Dennis Barlow .... Rupert Graves
Aimee Thanatogenous .... Miranda Richardson
Sir Ambrose Abercrombie .... Donald Pickering
Sir Francis Hinsley .... Ronald Fraser
Baumbein .... Bob Sessions
Mrs Heinkel .... Lorelei King
Mr Heinkel .... Garrick Hagon
Mr Schultz .... Graham Hoadly
Came .... Elizabeth Mansfield
Erikson .... Simon Treves
Schindler .... David Bannerman

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1990.