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Ladies of Letters

Season 1 2009

  • 2009-02-03T23:10:00Z on ITV3
  • 30m
  • 3h 40m (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
Ladies of Letters is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales, based on the series of books of the same name written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield. Routledge stars as Vera Small and Scales as Irene Spencer, two elderly ladies who share a sometimes rocky relationship conducted by correspondence. Patricia Routledge originally played Irene in A Lady of Letters, a 1988 episode of Alan Bennett's BBC television series, Talking Heads. The success of the first series of Ladies of Letters spawned adaptations of several sequels: Ladies of More Letters; Ladies of Letters.Com; Ladies of Letters Log On; Ladies of Letters Make Mincemeat; Ladies of Letters Spring Clean; Ladies of Letters Go Global; Ladies of Letters Say No; Ladies of Letters Go Green; Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit and Ladies of Letters Go Crackers. Each of the 15 minute episodes come as part of BBC Radio 4's long running magazine programme Woman's Hour. A ten-part television adaptation of the first radio series has been made for ITV3, which began on 3 February 2009.

10 episodes

Series Premiere

2009-02-03T23:10:00Z

1x01 Episode One

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode One

  • 2009-02-03T23:10:00Z22m

Two widows forge a friendship through letters. After Irene's daughter gets married, she receives a thank you note from Vera, and their correspondence begins.

2009-02-10T23:10:00Z

1x02 Episode Two

1x02 Episode Two

  • 2009-02-10T23:10:00Z22m

Irene's beau Bill hits it off with Vera, but after a disastrous holiday experience, the ladies stop speaking to each other for two years.

2009-02-17T23:10:00Z

1x03 Episode Three

1x03 Episode Three

  • 2009-02-17T23:10:00Z22m

Vera steals the spotlight at a soiree that Irene invites her to, leaving Irene feeling insecure.

2009-02-24T23:10:00Z

1x04 Episode Four

1x04 Episode Four

  • 2009-02-24T23:10:00Z22m

Vera doesn't take the news of her unmarried daughter Karen's pregnancy very well, but Irene hits it off with the girl and the two share some time together.

2009-03-03T23:10:00Z

1x05 Episode Five

1x05 Episode Five

  • 2009-03-03T23:10:00Z22m

An incident at the demonstration puts Irene in hospital suffering from amnesia, and Vera's attempts to help jog her memory cause more confusion. But worse is to come!

2009-03-10T23:10:00Z

1x06 Episode Six

1x06 Episode Six

  • 2009-03-10T23:10:00Z22m

Circumstances see both Irene and Vera in jail at the same time, but with Christmas coming up and lots of activities to arrange, it doesn't seem such a bad place to be.

2009-03-17T23:10:00Z

1x07 Episode Seven

1x07 Episode Seven

  • 2009-03-17T23:10:00Z22m

Vera and Irene continue to enjoy their captivity aboard the prison ship, and spend their time advising and helping their fellow inmates, whilst subverting the system from within.

2009-03-24T23:10:00Z

1x08 Episode Eight

1x08 Episode Eight

  • 2009-03-24T23:10:00Z22m

Irene launches an appeal to free her friend from prison, but Vera is content with her incarceration. So will the news of an impending by-pass through Vera's house change her mind?

2009-03-31T22:10:00Z

1x09 Episode Nine

1x09 Episode Nine

  • 2009-03-31T22:10:00Z22m

Vera is released from prison, but is soon overwhelmed by domestic chaos back at the farm. Irene lets the villagers know about the proposed bypass, but could Vera's home be haunted?

2009-04-07T22:10:00Z

1x10 Episode Ten

1x10 Episode Ten

  • 2009-04-07T22:10:00Z22m

As the bulldozers move in on Vera's house, Irene wins a camper van in a raffle and the friends agree to leave their troubles behind them and set off on a trip around the world trip together.

End of Series One

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