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Irene is forced into casual labour in Ibiza when she inherits Vera's debts. Stars Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge.

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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