Arkwright (Open All Hours) into a joke, for example asking: "Granville, how do you spell P-p-p-pepper? Is it 6 Ps or 7?" Granville occasionally mocks his uncle's speech pattern (such as calling the "weather fore-fore-forecast" the "weather twelvecast", and referring to the "B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-BC" as morse code), although never in a malicious or hurtful manner. Arkwright was shocked on one occasion to find that he also appears to stutter even when thinking to himself. By the time of the 2013 episode "Still Open All Hours" and the sequel series of the same name, Arkwright has long since died (Barker died in 2005), but almost all
Harley Granville-Barker his efforts did not go to waste but added to the growth of the regional repertory movement in Britain. Granville-Barker's directing career boomed with three famous productions of Shakespeare at the Savoy Theatre "The Winter's Tale" and "Twelfth Night" during 1912 and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1914. Granville-Barker took these productions and removed all classic scenery and replaced it with symbolic scenery, as well as enforcing ensemble acting. The year before he met his first wife, Granville-Barker wrote "The Voysey Inheritance" which is considered to be a masterpiece of the Edwardian stage. However, his other plays did not sit