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Play Sound {y:i}[ Man ] {y:i}I've always found your choice {y:i}of hobby, madam, quite unique. Yes. What do you think, Sneller? Not really my department, madam. Venus design. Waber Brothers, 1918. Famed corsetiers to the gentry. And if you look carefully, you'll see it's got only two elastic panels in front instead of the usual three. So it has, madam. [ Car Engine Rattling ]. It's Miss Poste. Oh, poor thing. Go and let her in.
{y:i}[ Man ] {y:i}I've always found your choice {y:i}of hobby, madam, quite unique. Yes. What do you think, Sneller? Not really my department, madam. Venus design. Waber Brothers, 1918. Famed corsetiers to the gentry. And if you look carefully, you'll see it's got only two elastic panels in front instead of the usual three. So it has, madam. [ Car Engine Rattling ]. It's Miss Poste. Oh, poor thing. Go and let her in.

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Description: A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.

Cast:
Judith Starkadder: Eileen Atkins
Flora Poste: Kate Beckinsale
Ada Doom: Sheila Burrell
Mybug: Stephen Fry
Adam Lambsbreath: Freddie Jones
Mrs. Mary Smiling: Joanna Lumley
Amos Starkadder: Ian McKellen
Mrs. Beetle: Miriam Margolyes
Seth Starkadder: Rufus Sewell
Reuben Starkadder: Ivan Kaye
Urk: Jeremy Peters
Elfine Starkadder: Maria Miles
Charles Fairford: Christopher Bowen
Meriam Beetle: Louise Rea
Rennet: Sophie Revell
Dick Hawk-Monitor: Rupert Penry-Jones
Mrs. Hawk-Monitor: Angela Thorne
Mr. Hawk-Monitor: Tim Myers
Earl P. Neck: Harry Ditson
Sneller: Trevor Baxter
Doctor Adolph Müdel: Frederick Jaeger
Aunt Gwen: Pat Keen
Mr. McKnag: Robert James
Bikki: William Scott-Masson
Mrs. Murther: Sussanah Morley
Hawk-Monitor Butler: Richard Bebb
Coiffeur: William Osborne
Couturier: Basil Hoskins
Girl in Hayloft: Allison Roberts
Tea Shop Waitress: Ninka Scott
Young Ada Doom: Myfanwy Hill
Bridesmaid: Pip Wilkinson

Written by: Malcolm Bradbury, Stella Gibbons

Director: John Schlesinger

Production: Thames Television, BBC Film, BBC, Thames International

Release date: 10 May 1996

Box Office: $5,682,429