Ladies of Letters Go Global (Omnibus)

Intrepid grandmothers Irene and Vera are back - and this time they are going global.

Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star as Vera Small and Irene Spencer.

With both at loggerheads with their respective families - Vera decides to take a break in Ibiza, and invites Irene to join her.

But, a simple holiday soon becomes a big adventure as they quickly fall out, get into separate scrapes in different countries, appeal to each other for help, and end up chasing round the world from Moscow to the Maldives.

Short of cash, forced to take casual work, and having to sort out family crises back home, on the hoof and from a distance - nothing dampens their spirits.

Grappling with unfamiliar accents and unusual foods, the indomitable ladies find themselves launching into battle with everyone from hotel owners to Transylvanian separatist rebels.

In fact, they're coping admirably with foreign travel, but how will the rest of the world cope with the Ladies of Letters?

Omnibus of a five part series of comic emails - written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield.

Vera ...... Patricia Routledge
Irene ...... Prunella Scales
Howard ...... Christopher Kelham
Nellie Thoroughgood ...... Susan Jameson
Brian ...... Ewan Bailey

Producer: Claudine Toutoungi

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.