The History of Mr Polly written by H.G. Wells performed by Clive Swift on Cassette (Abridged)

Mr Polly has spent years as a respectable shopkeeper. His life has little to offer but more tedium and poverty. So he settles on the idea of suicide and plans a fire that will destroy him. But in the mayhem that ensues, he forgets to kill himself and finds a whole new world waiting for him.