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Peter Higginbotham

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Synopsis: With more creditors than clients, the Fiona Buckingham Introduction Agency is struggling to make ends meet. Cheap do-it-yourself dating through newspaper Lonely Hearts columns has reduced the membership to almost single figures making it ever harder to match clients up. Even Fiona's secretary, two-finger typist Beverly is getting worried. Things start to look up when, within the space of two days, two new members join. Reluctant Trevor Hopkins, who likes spiders but prefers to sit downstairs on buses, has been sent along by his aging mother. The other new recruit, Brigadier Gregory Chadwick, a wealthy widower looking for solace, seems to take a shine to Fiona. Could Gregory be the answer to all Fiona's problems?

Synopsis: With more creditors than clients, the Fiona Buckingham Introduction Agency is struggling to make ends meet. Cheap do-it-yourself dating through newspaper Lonely Hearts columns has reduced the membership to almost single figures making it ever harder to match clients up. Even Fiona's secretary, two-finger typist Beverly is getting worried. Things start to look up when, within the space of two days, two new members join. Reluctant Trevor Hopkins, who likes spiders but prefers to sit downstairs on buses, has been sent along by his aging mother. The other new recruit, Brigadier Gregory Chadwick, a wealthy widower looking for solace, seems to take a shine to Fiona. Could Gregory be the answer to all Fiona's problems?

Making Ends Meet by Peter Higginbotham

Peter Higginbotham is one of Britain's best known authors and researchers on the workhouse - a much detested institution which for almost three centuries provided shelter, in return for labour, for the nation's destitute.  In the course of his researches, Peter has visited every corner of the British Isles, from Cornwall to Shetland, and from Kent to Galway, in order to track down former workhouse buildings. His work on the workhouse, and the larger poor relief system of which it formed a pivotal part, has resulted in the highly regarded website www.workhouses.org.uk together with a number of books on the subject including The Workhouse Encyclopedia, Voices from the Workhouse, The Workhouse Cookbook and A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse.  Peter is also a frequent contributor to radio programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Making History and Tracing Your Roots, and TV shows such as Heir Hunters and Who Do Yo Think You Are? Track: Boy Don't Cry (ft. Scomber , Admiral Bob (admiralbob77)) 2013 Jeris Licensed to at: http://ccmixter.org   Jeris / CC BY-NC 3.0 

Peter Higginbotham is one of Britain's best known authors and researchers on the workhouse - a much detested institution which for almost three centuries provided shelter, in return for labour, for the nation's destitute. In the course of his researches, Peter has visited every corner of the British Isles, from Cornwall to Shetland, and from Kent to Galway, in order to track down former workhouse buildings. His work on the workhouse, and the larger poor relief system of which it formed a pivotal part, has resulted in the highly regarded website <a href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.workhouses.org.uk</a> together with a number of books on the subject including The Workhouse Encyclopedia, Voices from the Workhouse, The Workhouse Cookbook and A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse. Peter is also a frequent contributor to radio programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Making History and Tracing Your Roots, and TV shows such as Heir Hunters and Who Do Yo Think You Are? Track: Boy Don't Cry (ft. Scomber , Admiral Bob (admiralbob77)) 2013 Jeris Licensed to <a href="http://ccmixter.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">at: http://ccmixter.org</a> <a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/41387" rel="cc:attributionURL nofollow" target="_blank"> Jeris</a> / CC BY-NC 3.0

This interview is with Peter Higginbotham authors and researchers on the history of the British Workhouse