As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war, the future of Venice rests with three unwilling people, including an ex-slave and trained assassin; a spoiled, but grieving noblewoman; and a pauper girl who escapes after being buried alive.
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...