Joe Warden lives in luxury at the Warden family mansion, Thattlebee Hall. It's bad enough that his parents are rich and uncaring, but even worse than them is Granny. She never feeds her pet cat, she has terrible table manners and no dress sense – but above all, she's really mean and nasty!
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...