Alice awakes in hospital in Paris after being rammed by a truck during a conversation with Emily, her wife. She is relieved that the baby she is carrying is safe. The police accuse her of being responsible for the global gridlock that has caused many deaths worldwide, claiming that the chairman of Swav Motors has said that she is the only one capable of making this happen. Alice knows that she is innocent but she is worried that her beloved wife, Emily, is responsible. When she is visited ...

A planet’s existence threatened by not responding to the consequences posed by climate change is rescued by dedicated citizens assisted by a vastly experienced trouble shooter from the Universe Environment Protection Agency. She transforms into the shape of a female citizen and arrives in the midst of a puzzling group of earthlings. They are yelling outside a building in Germany containing what her brain tells her are vehicles in a showroom. In faraway Australia on a country road a very yo...

Penelope Keith stars in the much-loved sitcom about an aristocrat forced to part with her family homeWhen her husband's death leaves her financially strapped, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton has no choice but to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate. With butler Brabinger in tow, she decamps to the tiny Old Lodge cottage, where she keeps a close - and disapproving - eye on the new squire: the nouveau riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale food magnate of Czech descent.In t...

This collection was first published on LP in the 1980s. When Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's husband dies, and she is forced to leave Grantleigh Manor, she takes up residence at the nearby Lodge - from where she can keep a watchful eye on the Manor's new owner, Richard DeVere! Featuring the cast of the TV series, including Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Peter Bowles as Richard DeVere and Angela Thorne as Marjory Frobisher. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now ...

Joan Walker reads Peter Spence’s delightful novelisation of his smash-hit BBC TV series about the veering fortunes of unreconstructed snob Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.It is 1979, and for as long as she can remember Audrey fforbes-Hamilton has enjoyed all the little luxuries that a woman of her position and ancestry might expect – a manor in the country, a modest staff, the awed respect of the local village and, of course, ‘a few shillings’ in the bank. But, after the d...