Little Old Mrs Pepperpot / Mrs Pepperpot Again
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Little Old Mrs Pepperpot / Mrs Pepperpot Again
Penelope Keith
A classic of the early 1960s, the stories of Little Old Mrs Pepperpot are quite charming but quickly begin to pall when listened to in a single sitting. Mrs Pepperpot is a perfectly normal person but she has a secret: sometimes she wakes up no bigger than a pepperpot. What happens then is certainly far from normal and Mrs Pepperpot's adventures as an object small enough to go in her husband's pocket are relatively entertaining. Alas, bossy little Mrs Pepperpot herself is not a very entertaining character and the fact that she has no control over the moments when she can change makes the magic of her transformation disappointingly arbitrary. Penelope Keith gets the best possible out of the stories: she doesn't labour the wit allowing the listener to decide for themselves whether what happens to Mrs Pepperpot is funny or not.