1. Disgrace

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Hollywood, 1947. Failed poet/screenwriter Dennis Barlow disgraces Hollywood's British 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 and Miranda Richardson. Evelyn Waugh's 1948 satire on the American way of death. Dramatised in three parts 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.