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Miss Bessemer Saves The Train by Roy Apps

Penelope Keith is Miss Bessemer in Roy Apps's 5-part serial inspired by a true story.

Radio 4 Extra,5 episodes

Episodes

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1. 'Friday. My Stewed Cabbage and Cold Gravy Day...'
Madge Bessemer forms The Lewes and East Grinstead Railway Fighting Committee.
26 Sep 2021,14 mins
2. 'Four Teenagers, One Pigeon Fancier and a Dog...'
Miss Bessemer leads her doughty troops straight to the heart of the British government.
03 Oct 2021,14 mins
3. 'Can I Tempt You With a Fondant Fancy, Miss Bessemer...?'
Miss Bessemer discovers that pride goes before a fall.
10 Oct 2021,14 mins
4. 'Citizens of Sussex! You've Nothing to Lose But Your Trains...!'
Has the Fighting Committee reached the end of the line?
17 Oct 2021,14 mins
5. 'Young Man, I Know Precisely What a 'V' Sign Means...!'
This should be Miss Bessemer’s moment of triumph, but she appears to have gone AWOL.
24 Oct 2021,14 mins