Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast

Hyacinth and Richard are off to a country house hotel for a weekend of golf - or avoiding the Major, as it happens. Alas, the problematic army-type is only interested in getting a hole in one of another kind. William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith discuss the fourth episode of Keeping Up Appearances's second series, as well as their own hotel check-in checklists.

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It’s a big day at Waney Elm as Hyacinth freshly presses her sage green napkins and polishes the solid silver self cleaning sauce separator in readiness for Emmet’s first candlelight supper. Hyacinth’s as excited as William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith - both no strangers to hosting executive evening soirées - even if William has previously insulted JVS’s Chantilly cream...

Hyacinth and Richard prepare to chauffeur the sister of someone who married a Baronet, prompting William Hanson to ask if anyone knows what a Baronet is and Jonathan Vernon-Smith to ask if anyone cares. Well, Hyacinth cares. She and her long-suffering husband spring into action and fire up the Rover 216 to collect the elderly Mrs Fortescue, but - as ever - things don't quite go to plan.

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The Luxury Podcast returns for Series 2 of Keeping Up Appearances, as William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith continue their journey through the hit 90s BBC sitcom. In the words of JVS, the second spell of episodes is when this series really starts 'cooking on gas', and it's no different for the podcast. Hyacinth Bucket is shocked to find a strange man outside Elizabeth's door which begins a journey of discovery for the true identity of this mystery male...

In the final episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances, Hyacinth and Richard attend the baptism of Daisy and Onslow’s granddaughter while emerging from a hippy caravanette.  William inadvertently reveals his parents’ house...

Hyacinth’s sister Daisy decides bagging Angelina Jolie’s first husband may just get her Onslow’s attention - but does it work?  William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith lament for Hyacinth at the poor treatment she faces by her peers ...

It’s Hyacinth and Elizabeth’s day in the charity shop for the fourth episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances.  But while Hyacinth is trying to tackle Councillor Mrs Nugent (and a garden wall) Elizabeth seems distracted a...

Hyacinth and Richard visit a stately home - or, as co-host William Hanson insists ‘an historic house’.  The third episode of the show has the lady of the house try to rub shoulders with the aristocracy, but - as ever - coming unstuck....