Tony Walker

She's a local woman who comes in to help.

So she's not a hired servant.

And of course, in the 20s and 30s, after the First World War, the English middle class were losing the ability to pay for servants.

So the whole thing of domestic service, which is a big deal in all times, up to Victorian and dying out in Edwardian times, dies out.

pretty much for everyone apart from the top aristocrats and and the nouveau riche um in the 30s and so until it's completely gone when i was born i was born in 1961 so completely gone although my great grandmother was in service um okay

So yeah, Potterham is a real place.

It's still a centre for the broads boating holidays.

So the waterfowl, he says, the waterfowl had taken the night off.

At least they weren't working.

This is a very typical Alan aside.

What he does is he'll say something and he'll make some kind of

wry comment.

At least they weren't working.

So the broad's wildfowl, of course, you probably still know a wild bird.

Fugl in old English and German.

Fugl in Icelandic, which I'm learning at the moment.

Bird.

So that's the old word for bird.

So the silence is here.

Well, you talk about fowl, don't you?