The Reverend Frederick Densham was Rector of St. Bartholomew Church in Warleggan, Cornwall, from 1931 until his death in 1953.

A cleric with unusual ideas in interior design. That thought – possibly correctly – that organ music was the work of the Devil. And who spent most of his time railing about the ills of humanity to small pieces of cardboard.

In an unusual move, upon becoming the vicar at the remote parish, Densham spent considerable time and industry alienating his entire congregation – doing such things as erecting an 8-foot barbed-wire fence around the rectory, banning whist drives, Sunday school, and the choir.

But, then, realising that no one was listening to his sermons, he fashioned his own paper and cardboard congregation and installed a Tannoy system at the front of the church so that he could bark out angry homilies about booze, beef, and his own organ.

Featuring Elizabeth Troake as Daphne du Maurier.

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