Cette série offre une représentation chaleureuse et humoristique de la vie à la campagne anglaise à travers les yeux d'une famille élargie. Au cœur se trouve un patriarche charismatique qui utilise des méthodes peu conventionnelles pour naviguer dans les défis quotidiens, des problèmes financiers aux dynamiques familiales. Les histoires sont remplies d'esprit doux, de situations inesperées et d'une célébration de la vie rurale.
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?
This play version of the H.E. Bates novel centres on the Larkin family, who live in Kent somewhere at the end of a rainbow. When an ernest young tax official turns up one hot May afternoon in 1957 to investigate Pop's income tax contributions, he is bewitched by eldest daughter Mariette.
4 hrs.A year has passed, and in this third novel of the Pop Larkin series, Pop Larkin is preparing to build the bungalow he promised Charley and Mariette upon their engagement. He buys a country home slated for demolition, intending to convert it for the two, but it is not long before a London couple persuade him to sell it. Pop, ever the trickster, sells it for an extortionate price, as the two social climbers know little about country life. Party throwing and cocktail mixing abound until a rocky boat and a misplaced pair of hands have Pop before the local magistrate....