Landladies

Louise Jameson has played roles in EastEnders, Emmerdale and Dr Who. She joins Matthew Sweet to recall the women who ran the digs she stayed in as a touring actor and the landladies that she's played (including a homicidal one!). Historian Gillian Williamson looks at how life in boarding houses in Georgian London has been portrayed both in contemporary accounts and in fiction, while film scholar Lillian Crawford encounters some memorable landladies in Ealing comedies and other post-war British films.

Gillian Williamson is the author of Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

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