Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter the wolf\-like tread of crime, and assassination for a few sous is all in a days work. We weep with the unlucky and heart\-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex\-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from...
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...