Synopsis of scenes: Miss Pym’s Day Out

23 Nov 1977 was the day of the Booker Prize banquet ‘Perhaps it is better to die in one’s sixties…’ – January Holy Trinity churchyard, Finstock; voiceover from the 1979 letter to Philip Larkin (ALTA) 1978 radio talk ‘Finding a Voice’ TV interview with Will Wyatt from the BBC (he was Hilary Pym in Barn Cottage, Finstock, Oxon. the producer of Tea with Miss Pym) The woman in the scarf bicycling to church is Belinda At the hairdresser – more from ‘Finding a Voice’ Bede Maschler Pudding recipe is in the Pym cookery book Holy Trinity church, Finstock, sermon from CTS Tom Maschler: ‘I regret the fact that I didn’t read the The blonde in the fur hat is Allegra Gray, book at the time’ Barbara is sitting with Dora Caldicote Repeated rejections of Unsuitable Attachment – ALTA Church lane, Finstock; dialogue from EW (1963) Hilary making breakfast in the cottage The Booker Prize dinner was at Claridge’s Henry Harvey at the flower stall and in taxi ‘If I were to choose I’d certainly choose Barbara Pym’ Barbara and Dora see Bishop Grote going in to – novelist A.N. Wilson propose to Belinda Bede in STG ‘The strength of her manner…’ – novelist Penelope Henry Harvey greets Barbara outside her cottage Lively ‘A woman living in the country who has had a Philip Larkin in cab hopeless love for a man…’ AVPE (22 March Dora making a hot milky drink 1962) ‘November roses…’ – Miss Grundy in AFGL ‘What is the heart? A damp cave with things growing ‘When I wake now in the small hours…’ – AVPE (5 in it… ‘ AVPE (May 1939) March 1978) Henry and Hilary talking in the kitchen ‘I work all day, and get half-drunk at night…’ – Philip ‘Some tame gazelle’ poem by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Larkin poem, Aubade quote from NFRL ‘One of my favourite quiz games…’ – ‘Finding a Bazaar in Finstock village hall: Voice’ ‘People blame one for dwelling on trivialities…’ Cast – Dulcie in NFRL Sending relations to jumble sales – Wilmet and Barbara Pym: Patricia Routledge Winifred in EW Dora Caldicote: Marcia Warren ‘So you’ve made one of your sponges…’ –Sister Bishop Grote: John Bott Dew and Sophia Ainger in AUA Belinda Bede: Susan Wooldridge Marmalade – Dulcie and Viola in NFRL Vicar of Finstock: Ian McNeice Novelist Jilly Cooper introduces herself Allegra Gray: Ann Penfold Mildred Lathbury: Ann Windsor Finstock train platform Dr. Simpson: Hugh Dickson Doctor visit: the pacemaker conversation is in AVPE Mrs. Bone: Mary Wimbush (28 April 1978) Couple on bus: Avril Elgab, Norman Bird ‘On the crowded train…’ AUA As themselves: Paddington Station, London Hilary Pym Henry Harvey St Mary’s church, Paddington Green, prayer from the Hazel Holt Jilly Cooper Book of Common Prayer, Order for the Visitation Will Wyatt Tom Maschler of the Sick. A.N. Wilson Penelope Lively Hazel Holt at the IAI (filmed at the LSE) Bishop Grote’s lantern lecture from STG Written and directed by James Runcie Broadcast 19 February 1992 on BBC’s Bookmark Hypothermia conversation from QIA AFGL=A Few Green Leaves, ALTA=A Lot to Ask, AUA=An Un- ‘The things people say’ AVPE (23 September 1978) suitable Attachment, AVPE=A Very Private Eye, CTS=Civil to Reading Coventry Patmore – Prudence Bates in J&P Strangers, EW=Excellent Women, IAI=International African Insti- tute, J&P=Jane and Prudence, NFRL=No Fond Return of Love, Dominion of the Birds – Mrs Bone & Mildred in EW QIA= Quartet in Autumn, STG=Some Tame Gazelle. ©2015 The Barbara Pym Society