Encouraged by her parents to befriend the Stoke d'Urbervilles, young Tess is seduced by their son, Alec, and bears him a child who dies. Making a fresh start, she goes to work on a Wessex farm where she meets Angel Clare, the parson's son, who is willing to marry her - until he learns of her past.
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...