4. Mission

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Irene’s kept on the move by her island-hopping employees so can’t prevent Lesley sending Christopher, Irene's treasured only son, out to Moscow to bring back Vera. When Vera explains that she and Christopher are to go on a dangerous mission for MI6, Irene takes the desperate steps of appealing to Nellie Thoroughgood, Chris's adoptive mother, for help 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 Nellie Thoroughgood ...... Susan Jameson Producer: Claudine Toutoungi First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.