Ladies of Letters꞉ Series 1 to 10 - BBC Radio Comedy - Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman Audiobook

Written by Lou Wakefield, Carole Hayman
Read by Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 160 Kbps
Dramatization

When Irene Spencer meets Vera Small at her daughter Lesley’s wedding reception, they embark upon a correspondence that is quite unlike any other in the history of letter-writing.

Both Irene and Vera are happily widowed and endowed with errant offspring. They live in a world of church fêtes and amateur dramatics, but love nothing more than dipping their pens in the vitriol pot – while remaining the firmest of pen-pals.

Feisty, naughty and endlessly funny, Ladies of Letters provides a hilarious insight into suburban friendships as they really are!

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Vera … Patricia Routledge
Irene … Prunella Scales
Howard/Stu Jackson … Christopher Kelham
Lesley … Fiona Clarke/Kate Gartside/Mia Soteriou
Karen … Julia Ford
Nigel/Christopher … Benedict Sandiford
Benjy … Nicholas Boulton
Zizi/Yvonne … Mia Soteriou
Malcolm … Phillip Joseph
Anthea Blunt … Rachel Atkins
Matron Rosa Ratchett … Ann Beach
Brian … Ewan Bailey
Alan Trumper … John Rowe
Sir James Fotherington-Fanshawe … Simon Treves
Judith Brain … Francis Jeater
Nellie Thoroughgood … Susan Jameson
Chris Thorogood … Stephen Hogan
Michaela Thorogood … Caroline Guthrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1997 to 2009.

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Downloaded from BBC Sounds as 320kbps M4A

I edited off the radio station continuity announcers & saved as chaptered M4B encoded using FDK VBR 5.

I have used AI to change the interminably long piano music that accompanied series one, to make it match the music used for all the other series.

Each series had a different name so I have created an AI announcer to introduce each.

There is less than 45 seconds of AI voice in this 14.5 hour audiobook, so fingers crossed it doesn’t trigger the AI ban this site has for AI narrated books…