Stella Gibbons - Westwood

STELLA GIBBONS - WESTWOOD (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr54mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th & 18th March 2021

1943: Margaret Steggles moves to bomb-damaged London to take up her new teaching job.

Stella Gibbons' gentle comedy adapted in two parts by Lynne Truss.

Narrator/Lady Challis .... Rosemary Leach
Margaret Steggles .... Juliet Aubrey
Gerard Challis .... Michael Fenton Stevens
Hilda Wilson .... Saffron Burrows
Hebe Niland .... Caroline Harker
Zita Mandelbaum .... Mia Soteriou
Seraphina Challis .... Phyllida Nash
Dick Fletcher .... Jonathan Nibbs
Mrs Steggles .... Angela Barlow
Mr Hudson .... Chris Donnelly
Grantey .... Jacqueline Tong
Earl .... Martin T. Sherman
Mrs Wilson .... Barbara Kellermann

Producer: Kate McAll

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.

STELLA GIBBONS - WESTWOOD - 1. CHALLIS CHARM (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th March 2021

Through a dropped ration book, she meets the Challises, who live at Westwood, an elegant house in Highgate.

The Challis family have great charm, and, with the casual selfishness of the privileged, they soon take advantage of Margaret's slavish admiration.

STELLA GIBBONS - WESTWOOD - 2. DISILLUSIONMENT (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th March 2021

Teacher Margaret Steggles wonders if pompous playwright Gerald Challis really is the man of her dreams?