A Genius Performance by Edward Petherbridge! An Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome Tuscan. Following a brief but passionate marriage she dies in childbirth and her English family decide to travel to Italy in order to bring the child back home to England and out of poverty.
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...