Act One Radio Drama – August 19, 2007

Table Manners

England’s famous seducer of other men’s wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first "battle" of Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy, The Norman Conquests. In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother’s house where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend. But they are no match for Norman, the bane of the family, who horrifies everyone by doing exactly as he likes. Starring Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Carolyn Seymour, Ken Danziger, Jane Leeves, and Christopher Neame Written by Alan Ayckbourn.