The History of Mr Polly: Beginnings and the Bazaar

Part one of Stephen Sheridan's two-part dramatisation of HG Well's comic novel about a man who takes desperate measures to escape his unhappy life. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he decides that the only option is to burn his shop to the ground and kill himself. But at the last moment, unexpected events lead him to a bright new future. Starring Paul Ready and narrated by Stephen Mangan