Babblewick Hall was a radio comedy

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 broadcast on BBC Radio 4

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 written by Scott Cherry

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. It was set in eighteenth-century

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 Britain

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 and told the story of Fenton Babblewick, a well-meaning but sometimes confused squire

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 played by Nicholas Le Prevost

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, and his clever Scottish

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 servant Barney, played by David Antrobus. The first series, with six weekly episodes, ran from December 27, 1995 to January 31, 1996, the second, with four weekly episodes, from September 4 to September 25, 1998.

External links

• Babblewick Hall — brief details of each episode