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Bea

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EastEnders' June Brown plays a long-suffering companion. Bittersweet comedy series about four very different women. From 1997.

Stewart Permutt's bittersweet comedies of the world according to the first of four very different women.

June Brown plays Bea, the long-suffering companion of a minor, whose unfortunate demise puts her happily into the limelight.

June is best remembered as the iconic soap opera character, Dot Cotton in BBC TV's EastEnders.

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1997.

15 minutes

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