Mr. Prohack

A middle-aged Treasury official unexpectedly becomes co-heir to the fortune of a wartime profiteer, and his sudden prospect of wealth provokes private delight, moral unease, and social anxiety. He imagines indulging and spoiling his wife and daughter while worrying about unwelcome associations and the need to maintain respectability. The narrative follows his efforts to manage new money amid clubland attitudes, family dynamics and competing claimants, combining dry social comedy with reflections on thrift, idleness, and human frailty. Episodes explore the practicalities of inheritance, the reshaping of domestic routines, and the compromises between principle and self-interest.