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Radio 4 Extra,03 Jan 2006,15 mins

SeriesLadies of Letters Go Global

2. Debts

Ladies of Letters

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Irene is forced into casual labour when she arrives in Ibiza to find she’s inherited her absent friend's debts. Meanwhile Vera’s escaped Gaston's clutches in a beetroot truck heading for Trieste, when she falls in with Roman, a charismatic Transylvanian with a hatred of garlic. Starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence. Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. Irene ...... Prunella Scales Vera ...... Patricia Routledge Producer: Claudine Toutoungi First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.

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