The entire fifth series of Sue Limb’s satirical send-up from the Bloomsbury Group.

In this fifth series, our arty, adulterous Bohemians are creating havoc in the home and overseas. Henry is expecting to ignore his fiftieth birthday – but Vera has organised a surprise party. When Venus sneaks in uninvited and makes a nuisance of herself in the bushes, Henry wants to mind for the hillsides. Fortunately, a lecture tour of America beckons…

In america, Vera meets Dorothy Barker in the Algonquin, while Henry about Gloomsbury: Series 5: The hit BBC Radio 4 comedy rubs shoulders with Al Padrone en route to Chicago. Meanwhile, a cottage for the Sizzlinghurst property is becoming vacant, and everybody wants it.

Returning in the States, Henry seeks election as a Labour Party candidate, while Ginny speaks socialism with George Gurnard Shaw. Vera chooses she desires another kid, but Henry whisks her off to Paris to get a fling prior to the war begins. Accompanied by Ginny and Lionel, they may be savoring a last-minute whirlwind of pleasure in the town of Love when Venus arrives with some dreadful information…

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‘… one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed displays on the surroundings’ Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph

‘A gloriously foolish show’ THE GIRL