Chronicles the 1519 arrival of Hernando Cortes in Mexico, his discovery of an advanced civilization replete with gold and headed by the emperor Montezuma, and his victory over Montezuma and the Aztec empire, effectively annexing the territory for Spain.
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...